Sholeh Wolpé is an Iranian-American poet, playwright, and librettist. Her most recent works include Abacus of Loss: A Memoir in Verse (University of Arkansas Press), and Song of Exile (Part II), commissioned by New Voices, Wisconsin. Sholeh’s forthcoming works include: Attar: The Invisible Sun (Harper Collins 2025), Abaco de Perdida (Visor Libros, España 2025), and Nava Avaz, a full length opera for 6 composers (2026). Wolpé’s translations of the twelfth-century Sufi mystic poet, Attar, The Conference of the Birds (W.W. Norton ), and of the twentieth-century Iranian rebel poet Forugh Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (University of Arkansas Press), have garnered awards and established Wolpé as a re-creator of Persian poetry in English. Her play SHAME was featured in New Iranian Plays, published by Aurora Metro books (2022) and was shortlisted for Cooper Prize. Wolpé wrote the libretto for an oratorio, “The Conference of the Birds,” and a multi-genre performance, “The Seven Valleys,” which premiered respectively at the Broad Stage and the Getty Villa Museum in 2022. Her choral text, Song of Exile (Part I) was commissioned by The Arlington Chorale premiered in Virginia in 2023. She is the Writer-In-Residence at the University of California, Irvine, and the poetry editor at The Markaz Review. She has lived in Iran, Trinidad, and the United Kingdom and presently divides her time between Los Angeles and Barcelona.