Past juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and a WLT contributor, Niloufar Talebi (@NiloufarTalebi) is an author, award-winning translator, interdisciplinary artist, and producer. Her most recent projects are the hybrid memoir Self-Portrait in Bloom (l’Aleph, 2019) and the opera Abraham in Flames (composer, Aleksandra Vrebalov), both inspired by the life and work of the Nobel Prize–nominated Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou.