Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and psychotherapist. She has received The Iowa Review Award in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review's Schiff Award, and a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship, and was runner-up for the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Her work has also been recognized as a finalist for prizes from Pleiades, Noemi Press, Perugia Press, and Southern Indiana Review. A Pushcart nominee, her poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, Swamp Pink, AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, The Mississippi Review, Southern Indiana Review, among others. She lives in Los Angeles. Her work can be followed at leilafarjami.com and @leila_poetry.