Wait For Me, Amabiki Kannon

Pegah Rahmati Nezhad is a poet, artist, medical doctor, and scientist from Tehran, Iran. She is a pioneering and only Iranian poet who has published English-language senryu, monoku, tanka, and cherita internationally. Pegah is also the first poet from Iran most extensively published in global haiku, senryu, monoku, and tanka journals and platforms as well as cherita anthologies. She is the Grand Prize winner in the 2026 International Vladimir Devidé Haiku Contest, an award winner in the 7th Morioka International Haiku Contest, and a TouchStone Award nominee by O2 Haiku journal in 2025. She has contributed to 14 poetry anthology books so far.