Circle of the Dead

Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator and psychotherapist. Her debut poetry collection, Daughter of Salt, an Editor’s Selection at Trio House Press, is forthcoming in July 2026.

She is the recipient of The Iowa Review Award in Poetry (2025), The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Award in Poetry (2024), and PEN America’s Emerging Voices Fellowship (2025). Her work has been recognized as a finalist for the Prufer Poetry Prize from Pleiades, the Trio House Press Award, the Perugia Press Prize, Southern Indiana Review‘s Michael Waters Poetry Prize. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, Swamp Pink, AGNI, The Cincinnati Review, The Mississippi Review, Southern Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, and in anthologies from Sundress and Guernica Editions, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.