Hajar Hussaini

Hajar Hussaini is a poet from Kabul, Afghanistan. She authored Disbound: Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2022) and translated Death and His Brother: A Novel by Khosraw Mani, translated from the Persian (Syracuse University Press, 2025). Her translation of Maral Taheri’s poetry collection won the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Poetry and was published by Deep Vellum in 2026. 

A 2026 Whiting Award winner, Hussaini is a visiting assistant professor of English at Skidmore College. She lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.