
Leila Farjami
Leila Farjami is an Iranian-American poet, translator, and psychotherapist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, AGNI, Pleiades, The Cincinnati Review, The Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Recipient of the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Award in Poetry, and a 2025 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship, she lives in Los Angeles. (updated 10/2025)
AGNI has published the following work:
My Mother Becomes a Pond
Poetry by Leila Farjami