MA, English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University
PhD, University of Waterloo
Email: morteza.dehghani@uwaterloo.ca
Biography
I wrote a dissertation on poetry and art/nonfiction film to explore concepts of loss and consolation. My primary area of interest is creative writing; I write poetry, short fiction, graphic poetry, creative nonfiction, and experimental forms. I have published poetry translation in Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Massachusetts Review. I was a poetry editor with The New Quarterly (2021-2024) and a few years before that I’d written a thesis on the poetry and poetics of G.M. Hopkins.
Fellowships and Awards
- SSHRC Master’s award for writing a poetry collection, UBC School of Creative Writing
- Shortlist for The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize (2025)
- Shortlist for The Malahat Review Open Season Awards (2021)
- Waterloo English Department’s Graduate Creative Writing Award for Poetry (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- University of Waterloo Arts Graduate Scholarship
- Waterloo Department of English Graduate Scholarship
- University of Waterloo Arts Experience Award
- University of Waterloo International Doctoral Student Award
Courses Taught
Some of the courses I’ve taught at Waterloo and St. Jerome’s:
- ENGL 335, Creative Writing I: Poetry and the Short Story (English)
- ENGL 335, Creative Writing I: Poetry, Aphorism, Poetic Translation (English)
- ENGL 335, Creative Writing I, Poetry, Flash Fiction, Experimental nonfiction (English)
- Arts 130, Poetry: Source of Knowledge? (Arts First)
- Arts 130, Poetry Appreciation and Expression (Arts First)
- Arts 130, Why Do We Tell Stories? (Arts First)
- ENGL 332, Topics in Creative Writing: Decreation and Ekphrasis (English)
- Arts 130, Exploring Poetry (Arts First)
- COMMST 223, Public Speaking (Communication Arts)
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ENGL 101B, Introduction to Rhetorical Studies (English)