Arman Salem is a poet and translator based in New York.

He is currently working alongside Kaveh Akbar on a book of the teachings of 8th-century Islamic mystic Rabi’a al-‘Adawiyya, forthcoming Spring 2028 from Modern Library.

He was the 2026 Lucille Medwick Award Winner from the Poetry Society of America, and his work can be found in Guernica, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

He is a doctoral student at the University of Rhode Island, where he is the Managing Editor for Barrow Street Press.