Niloufar Talebi

NILOUFAR TALEBI is an author, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. She has spent most of the past two decades working on projects related to Ahmad Shamlou. Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou (World Poetry Books, Nov. 2025) is part of this suite of projects that includes the memoir, Self-Portrait in Bloom (l’Aleph, 2019), Abraham in Flames opera (with composer A. Vrebalov), the video-poem Funeral Address, and a TEDx Talk. Talebi is the editor and translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, 2008), and her multimedia projects include ICARUS/RISE, The Persian Rite of Spring, Fire Angels, The Plentiful Peach, and Epiphany. Talebi is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, and her honors and distinctions include a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for her translations of Shamlou’s poetry.