isaac dwyer is a scholar, poet, and translator living in Los Angeles. They work in Spanish, Portuguese, Urdu-Hindi, Farsi, and Tajiki. Their academic writing concerns erotics and queer aesthetics in Islamicate narrative traditions, among other things.

To get a taste of their work, you could read this article about trans* sexual politics in contemporary Shi’ism, or perhaps a translated story about mind-reading mushrooms that look like human heads.

As for their academic bona fides, they are a doctoral student in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. They received their MA in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, concentrating on Urdu-Hindi literature and South Asian Islam, and their BA in Literature and Spanish from Bennington College.

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