Sholeh Wolpé

Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-American writer, whose literary work includes seven collections of poetry, several plays, five books of translations and three collections, as well as texts and librettos for the choir and opera. Her most recent works include The Invisible Sun – Attar (Harper Collins, 2025), Abaco de Perdida (Visor Libros, 2025), and Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse (University of Arkansas Press, 2022). She is the Writer-in-Residence at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the poetry editor at The Markaz Review. She presently divides her time between California and Barcelona.