Niloufar is an author, award-winning translator, artist, and producer. Her recent projects are the hybrid memoir, Self-Portrait in Bloom (2019), and its operatic companion, Abraham in Flames, both inspired by the poet Ahmad Shamlou. Her TEDxBerkeley talk is “On Making Beauty After Agony.” Other projects: Editor/Translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World and its theatrical performance, ICARUS/RISE, The Persian Rite of Spring (LA County Museum of Art), Fire Angels (Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances), The Plentiful Peach (Stanford Live), and Epiphany (BAM).
