Sheema Kalbasi

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Sheema Kalbasi (Persian: شیما کلباسی, born November 20, 1972, in Tehran, Iran) is a human right activist, poet, literary translator, editor, artist, and blogger. She is the director of Dialogue of Nations through Poetry in Translation, director of Poetry of Iranian Women Project, the poetry editor of Muse Apprentice Guild, and the associate director of the Other Voices International Project. Furthermore she has created the horizontal and vertical style in poetry and is the first Iranian poet to have co-authored in English. Her works have been published and translated or are forthcoming in various anthologies, literary journals and on line magazines. She has worked as a voluntary worker for the United Nations and the Center for non Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, and Denmark.

Kalbasi's writings are distinguished by her passionate defense of the ethnic and religious minorities' rights.