Sheema Kalbasi is an Iranian American poet, writer and historian. She is a Pushcart Prize–winning poet, a recipient of a United Nations humanitarian award and a grantee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. Her books include Echoes in Exile (PRA Publishing, 2006), Spoon and Shrapnel (Daraja Press, 2024), and Jahan Malek Khatun: The Princess Poet of Fourteenth-Century Persia (Daraja Press, 2026). @iranianwoman