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Rooja Mohassessy [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Dobbins, CA
California US
Email: 
roojamohassessy@gmail.com
Bio: 

Rooja Mohassessy is an Iranian-born poet and educator. She is a MacDowell Fellow and an MFA graduate of Pacific University, Oregon. Her debut collection When Your Sky Runs Into Mine (Feb 2023) was the winner of the 22nd Annual Elixir Poetry Award. Rooja’s work has been featured on NPR, The Hive Poetry Collective, and The Slowdown. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Poet Lore, RHINO Poetry, Nimrod, Southern Humanities Review, CALYX Journal, Ninth Letter, Cream City Review, The Adroit Journal, New Letters, The Florida Review, Poetry Northwest, The Pinch, The Rumpus, The Journal, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Her work is also anthologized in California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology, and Colossus: Body, a compilation of writings by Californians writing on the themes of bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. Rooja is an editorial assistant at the journal Prairie Schooner.

 

 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
Chinese
English
French
Italian
Persian
Born in: 
Tehran
Iran
Raised in: 
Geneva
Switzerland
Website: 
https://www.roojamohassessy.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

Annual Elixir Poetry Award

Education: 
Pacific University
Writers Retreats: 
MacDowell
Identifies as: 
Iranian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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