Niloufar Talebi

Niloufar Talebi is an author, translator, multidisciplinary artist, and producer whose work bridges literature, performance, and cross-cultural storytelling. 

Talebi is the editor and translator of Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou (World Poetry Books, 2025), recipient of a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship and winner of the 2026 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and has spent two decades translating, presenting, and championing the work of Ahmad Shamlou through projects, including the hybrid memoir Self-Portrait in Bloom (L’Aleph, 2019) and the opera Abraham in Flames (2019). She is also the editor and translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, 2008). 

A Fulbright U.S. Scholar and TEDx speaker, Talebi has taught writing and creativity at Stanford Continuing Studies, Plymouth State University, and Hunter College. Her interdisciplinary projects have been commissioned and presented by various, institutions, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Stanford Live.