Anis Mojgani

Anis Mojgani was born and raised in New Orleans. He received a BFA in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Mojgani is the author of six books of poetry, including The Tigers, They Let Me (Write Bloody, 2023) and In the Pockets of Small Gods (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018). He wrote the libretto for the opera Sanctuaries (Third Angle Music, 2021), which revolves around the gentrification and displacement of the African diaspora as well as that of former residents of North Portland. He is also the author of the children’s book Lifespans of a Rock (Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, 2024). 

Mojgani’s work has been commissioned for the Getty and Peabody Essex museums and the Oregon Artists’ Biennial. He is the cocreator of the Oregon-based Tele-poem Hotline, a daily rotation of poem recordings, and serves on the board of Literary Arts in Portland.

In 2021, Mojgani received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship while tenured as Oregon’s tenth poet laureate, a position in which he served two terms. He is a two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion and a winner of the World Cup Poetry Slam. Mojgani lives in Portland.