Ramin Ahmadi

Ramin Ahmadi, a physician, poet, and writer, immigrated to the United States in 1981 at the age of seventeen and has not returned to Iran or his childhood city of Kerman since. Prior to attending medical school, he studied Russian history and literature. He completed his training in internal medicine at Yale and went on to get a master of public health from Yale school of public health. His published works include “In Memory of Past Loves,” a collection of poems (Honar, 1992); “Iran’s Poetry in the Eighties,” a collection of interviews and introductions of poets (Par, 1994); “The Trial of Abbas Amir-Entezam,” a collection of essays (Par, 1998); “Letter to the Court of History,” a collection of Amir-Entezam’s letters from prison (Par, 2000); and “Afsaneh and the young Nima, Nima Youshij’s Poetry during his youth, an analysis of Nima’s poetry from 1922-1932 (Farzaneh, Tehran 2015, published under the name of Ilia Kian Ahmadi). Ramin currently resides in Connecticut, USA, with his wife and two sons.