Photo by Sourena Mohammadi

Leila Farjami's poetry defies conventional wisdom. She turns her everyday objects into a gigantic collage of human misery, then forcefully stuffs them into your head and leaves you there choking on the meaning of life, shedding tears and gasping for air. After having tormented you with her logic-defying, time-warping words, you still feel like wanting to find her and apologize for being human.   If Einstein was alive -- searching for the logic behind "Unified Field of Theory" -- he would find his final answers in her poems. They defy his concepts of time, space, special and general theory of relativity; they turn them meaningless.

- Arta Fuladvand
Iranian.com, Nov. 26, 2001

Leila Farjami was born in Tehran, Iran. She immigrated to the United States with her family during the infamous and gruesome Iran-Iraq war. Leila has been writing and translating poetry for many years. Her first book of poetry named “Seven Seas, One Dew Drop” was published in Iran in 2001 by Roozgar publications. Her second volume of Persian poetry titled "the confession letters" is currently under publication. Leila's current projects include publication of her own poetry volume in English and an English anthology of contemporary Iranian poetry. Leila is also involved in ongoing art projects to promote healing and mental health in traumatized children. Leila’s poetry has been published in many Persian literary magazines in Iran and abroad, namely: Karnameh, Kelk, Baran, Maks, ghabil, goharan, and Simorgh. She currently practices psychotherapy, art therapy, and play therapy with abused and neglected children and pre-adolescents in Southern California.