Wolpe, Sholeh

Sholeh Wolpe is the author of two collections of poetry, including Rooftops of Tehran, and she is the editor of Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World and The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles. She is a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Her books of translations include Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself.