Shahryar Eskandari Zanjani is a writer, teacher, and editor. His poetry has received an honorable mention in the 2024 Witness Poetry Prize competition (Southern Humanities Review 57.3), won second place in Nine Muses Review’s inaugural poetry contest, and appeared in We Were Seeds Anthology (Querencia Press, 2024) and The Hemlock Anthology (Lighted Lake Press, 2024). Shahryar’s debut book, English Phonetics and Phonology for Farsiphones, was published by Booka (2020). He has edited several books at ATU Press, serves as guest editor of Frontier Poetry, and is the translator of Zahhak's Inferno (Markosia, 2024) and Juliet and the King (Hoorakhsh Studios, 2025). His work has also appeared in Willow Review, Sky Island Journal, and Thimble, among others. Shahryar lives in Tehran, Iran.