Hajar Hussaini is the author of Disbound: Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2022) and the recipient of a 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry.

Her translations from Persian include Death and His Brother: A Novel by Khosraw Mani (Syracuse University Press, 2027), which won a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and Wounded Vita Nuda: Poems by Maral Taheri (Deep Vellum, 2027), which won the 2025 Mo Habib Translation Prize.

She was a 2025 MacDowell fellow and a 2025 Baldwin for the Arts Fellow. 

Hussaini also co-curates the Salon Salvage performance and reading series in Troy, NY.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is an assistant teaching professor of English at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs, NY.