Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in NYC of Iranian descent. She was awarded a 2024 fellowship from the MacDowell Colony as well as a grant from the 2023 New York State Council on the Arts. Her book Gold which features her translations of poems by the 13th century sage and mystic, Rumi was published by New York Review Books Classics/Penguin Random House) in 2022.

Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, poet, performance artist, and composer born in NYC of Iranian descent. In 2023, she was awarded a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony as well as a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her book Gold which features her translations of poems by the 13^th century sage and mystic, Rumi was published by New York Review Books Classics/Penguin Random House) in 2022. With the grant from NYSCA, Gafori is developing a cross-media performance piece weaving translations from the book, original text, and musical compositions sung in Persian. She is completing her second volume of translations, also to be released on NYRB Classics. Gafori’s work has been published by Columbia University Press, Harvard Review, Literary Hub, Hyperallergic, The Marginalian, and elsewhere. She has performed, lectured, and led workshops at universities and festivals across the country and abroad, including Stanford University, Sarah Lawrence College, Lincoln Center, the New York Public Library, the Women’s Library of Istanbul, and Bradford Literary Fest.