
Niloufar Talebi
Niloufar Talebi is a writer, award-winning translator, and creator. Her work has been featured at the Kennedy Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and she has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Her projects include “Belonging,” “Epiphany,” “The Persian Rite of Spring,” and “ICARUS/RISE.” Her work has been published in World Literature Today, PBS Frontline, Rattapallax, and Poetry International. She is the author of “Self-Portrait in Bloom,” and the creator of its related opera, “Abraham in Flames,” which world premieres in San Francisco May 9-12.