Walton Visiting Writer in Translation Rajiv Mohabir – True Lit 2025

The University of Arkansas MFA Program in Creative Writing & Translation is proud to present their 2025-26 Walton Visiting Writer in Translation, poet Rajiv Mohabir. Join us for a reading, discussion and book signing!

Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American author of five acclaimed poetry collections, The Taxidermist’s Cut, Cowherd’s Son, Cutlish, Whale Aria, and the forthcoming Seabeast; a book of translation, I Even Regret Night; and his hybrid memoir, Antiman. He is winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize, a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, finalists for the 2017 and 2022 Lambda Literary Awards, finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award, the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. Mohabir has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nationʻs Artist foundation, Kundiman, The Home School, and the American Institute of Indian Studies language program. He received his MFA in Poetry and Translation from Queens College, CUNY and his PhD in English from the University of Hawai`i. Rajiv is currently a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Books will be available for sale and signing following the presentation.

Learn more at https://www.faylib.org/event/14102405!

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