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About Sholeh Wolpé
Sholeh Wolpé is an award-winning poet, literary translator and writer. Born in Iran, she has lived in England, Trinidad and the United States. She is the author of Rooftops of Tehran (Red Hen, 2008), The Scar Saloon (Red Hen, 2004) and Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (Univ. of Arkansas, 2007) for which she was awarded the Lois Roth Translation Prize in 2010. Her most recent book is The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its exiles (Michigan State University Press) which she edited and in which many of her own translations appear. Her forthcoming books are a collection of poems, Keeping Time With Blue Hyacinths, and an anthology, Breaking The Jaws of Silence -- Sixty American Poets Speak to the World (both from the Univeristy of Arkansas press, March 2013).
Sholeh is a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East edited by Reza Aslan (Norton), the editor of 2010 Iran issue of the Atlanta Review which became the journal's bestselling edition. She is also a contributing editor of Los Angeles Review of Books and the poetry editor of the Levantine Review, an online journal about the Middle East.
Sholeh's poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide, and have been translated into several languages. She has been featured on NPR, Voice of America and Dodge Poetry Festival. Sholeh holds Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She lives in Los Angeles.
You can read more about Sholeh Wolpe on The Poetry Foundation website.
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Awards and Recognitions:
— 2010 Lois Roth Translation Award for Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
— Glimmer Train's Fiction Open (Finalist, 2006)
— "Peace through the Arts" award, Artists Embassy International (2005)
— "Cultural Achievement" award in poetry (
Artists Embassy International (2004)
— "Commendable Excellence" award in poetry (Artists Embassy International (2004)
— First and second prize in poetry, Soul-Making Literary Competition (The National League of American Pen Women (2003)
—Poetry award -- 9-11 A Remembrance in Poems (Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse)
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