She has presented at numerous venues including the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, The National Arts Club, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Asia Society, the New York Public Library, The New School, Universities of California at Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Irvine, California institute for the Arts, SUNY, CUNY, Yale University, Theater Artaud, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Actor’s Theater, ODC, and Intersection for the Arts. She created "ICARUS/RISE", a multimedia theatrical piece based on new Iranian poetry and inspired by the Iranian oral storytelling traditions of Naghaali and Pardeh-daari. She is the recipient of grants and translation prizes including from the James Irvine Foundation, the International Center for Writing and Translation (2004), the American Literary Translators Association (2005), the PEN/New York State Council on the Arts (2006) and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize (2006). BELONGING was nominated for a 2008 Northern California Book Award. She is a member of ALTA, MESA and PEN American Center, and is an Artist in Residence at School of the Arts in San Francisco. She is currently working under commission on a libretto for a love song cycle, commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, July 2008), edited and translated by Niloufar Talebi

Strange Times, My Dear, The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature (Arcade Publishing, 2005), Ed. Nahid Mozaffari.

Zoland Poetry, Ed. Roland Pease (Zoland Books, 2007)

Articles:

‘Memory of a Phoenix Feather: Iranian Storytelling Traditions and Contemporary Theater’, World Literature Today, July/August 2009

‘The Art and Politics of Translation’, Tehran Bureau, January 2009

‘Against Longing’, ArteEast, 2008