Sholeh Wolpé is a poet, literary translator and writer. She is the author of The Scar Saloon (Red Hen Press), has a CD by the same title (Refuge Studios), and her translations of selected poems of Forugh Farrokhzad , arguably the most significant female Iranian poet of the twentieth century, is forthcoming in 2007 from the University of Arkansas Press.   Her poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in scores of literary journals, periodicals and anthologies worldwide. Sholeh was born in Iran but spent most of her teen years in the Caribbean and Europe, ending up in the U.S. where she pursued Masters degrees in Radio-TV-Film (Northwestern University) and Public Health (Johns Hopkins University). She is the recipient of several awards for her poetry and is the director and host of Poetry at the Loft… and more , a successful cultural arts venue in Redlands, California. She lives in Los Angeles. For more information please visit: www.sholehwolpe.com.