Zuzanna Olszewska is a junior research fellow in Oriental Studies at St. John’s College, Oxford, working on the ethnography and literary and intellectual history of Iran and Afghanistan. She recently completed a doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology at Oxford University, titled Poetry and its Social Contexts among Afghan Refugees in Iran, which received a Dissertation Award from the Foundation for Iranian Studies. Her translations of Afghan Persian poetry have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, including Modern Poetry in Translation, and she is preparing an anthology of Afghan poetry.