July 14, 2005

Poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé was born in Iran but spent most of her teen years in the Caribbean and Europe, ending up in the U.S. where she pursued Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film ( Northwestern University) and Public Health ( Johns Hopkins University). She is the author of The Scar Saloon ( Red Hen Press, October 2004) and her poems and translations have been published in many literary journals and anthologies in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Sholeh is the recipient of several awards for her poetry and is the director and host of Poetry at the Loft, a successful poetry venue in Redlands , Ca. She is the CEO of a small medical business management company, ZyQuest, in Redlands.. She divides her time between Redlands and Newport Beach, California >>> See SholehWolpe.com

Sent by Darius Kadivar

* Send this page to a friend *