Born in 1987 in Istanbul, Efe Murad is currently working towards his Ph.D in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He has published four books of poetry and a book of translations from the Iranian poet M. Azad in Turkish. His translations from Turkish poetry, together with the American poet Sidney Wade, have appeared in journals such as Asymptote, Little Star, Talisman, and Two Lines. He is working on the complete Turkish translations of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.