Vida Kazemi
Vida Kazemi was born in Tehran. She first came to the US as a student years before the Revolution, and has spent most of her life here. However, she visits Iran regularly to see family. She is a psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has studied poetry with Barbara Hyett Helfgott and for the last six years with Suzanne Berger and visiting poets such as Mark Doty and David Ferry.