Rajiv Mohabir

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Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Seabeast (Fourway Books, 2025), a finalist for both the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry; Whale Aria (Four Way Books, 2023); Cutlish (Fourway Books, 2021), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; The Cowherd’s Son (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Kundiman Prize and an honorable mention of the Eric Hoffer Book Award; and The Taxidermist’s Cut (Four Way Books, 2016), winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry.

Mohabir is the translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (Kaya Press, 2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. His memoir, Antiman (Restless Books, 2021), won Reckless Books’ 2019 New Immigrant Writing Prize.

Mohabir is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. He formerly served as the translations editor at Waxwing Journal.