Arman Salem is an Iranian-American writer and translator whose work can be found in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Alongside Kaveh Akbar, he is at work on a book of translation focused on the 8th-century Sufi mystic Rabi’a al-'Adawiyya, forthcoming Spring 2028 from Modern Library. He is the Managing Editor for Barrow Street Press.