Leila Farjami
Leila Farjami, an Iranian-American poet, translator, and psychotherapist, is the author of Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review’s Schiff Award, and a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles. More at leilafarjami.com and on Instagram @leila_poetry. (updated 10/2026)
AGNI has published the following work:
My Mother Becomes a Pond
Poetry by Leila Farjami