Robyn Creswell is assistant professor of comparative literature at Yale University and a former poetry editor at the Paris Review. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and Harperās Magazine, among many other publications. He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilitoās The Tongue of Adam and Sonallah Ibrahimās āThat Smellā and āNotes from Prison."