Poet, short story writer, and obstetrician/gynecologist Mo H. Saidi was born in Ahwaz, Iran. He earned an MD at the University of Tehran Medical School and immigrated to the United States in 1969. Saidi earned an MA at Harvard University.

In his poetry, Saidi engages themes of love, faith, and the cyclical nature of history. His debut collection, Art in the City (2008), won the Poetry Society of Texas’s Eakin Memorial Book Publication Award. He is the author of the poetry collections The Color of Faith (2010) and Between A and Z (2014) and the short story collection The Garden of Milk and Wine (2012). His poetry has been featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,” a nationally syndicated newspaper column. Saidi also cofounded the literary journal Voices de la Luna: A Quarterly Poetry & Arts Magazine.

Saidi completed his medical fellowship in gynecology/oncology at the University of Texas at San Antonio and in 1986 founded an OB/GYN group practice in San Antonio, Texas. With Carla M. Zainie, he coauthored Female Sterilization: A Handbook for Women (1979). He lives in San Antonio.

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​From Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org