Mehdi Navid (b. 1981) is a writer, translator and editor based in Tehran. He is the author of The Book of Sounds, a dual language edition forthcoming from The Operating System in 2018. His previous works include a collection of poetry in Persian titled تو نیامدی بهنگام / جای تو سر شب آمد [You Didn’t Arrive in Time / Dusk Fell Instead] published by Bon-Gah Publications, and an unpublished novella, بطری‌ها و بدن‌ها [Bottles and Bodies]. He has also translated several works by Samuel Beckett, Richard Brautigan and William S. Burroughs to Farsi. He worked as literary general editor for Ney Publication Company, and Rokhdad-e-No Publication House. He also worked as a journalist for Karnameh Magazine. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Pagard Publications.