Mo H Saidi is a physician-writer born in Iran who moved to the United States in 1969 and became an American citizen in 1975. Saidi published over 30 medical and scientific papers and earned a master’s in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University in 2007. His first book of poetry, Art in the City, won the PST manuscript award & was published in 2007. In 2010, St. Mary’s University’s Press published his second collection, The Color of Faith. Saidi’s collection of short fiction, The Garden of Milk and Wine, was published in 2014, and Between A and Z: Poems in 2015. The Marchers: A Novel was published in 2016 and was chosen as best fiction by the Express-News editors. Participant Media considered the novel for a movie. His second novel, Esther and the Genius, was published in 2017. His fifth book of poetry, Name the River: Poems with Annotation, will be released on March 1, 2025. Saidi’s poems and prose have won local, state, and national awards, including the 2017 Chautauqua Short Fiction Award, and have appeared in the Poetry Society of Texas anthology: Book of the Year, “The National Federation of State Poetry Societies,” Prize Poems anthology: Encore, on the Poetry Foundation website, in Boston Review, Poet Magazine, and other regional and national literary journals.