Rain Taxi — Review of Elegies of the Earth, June 2026

The Academy of American Poets Announces Niloufar Talebi as the Winner of the 2026 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, June 2026

Asymptote — Reivew of Elegies of the Earth, November 2025

Press Release — Teaching Lecturer Niloufar Talebi Complete Fulbright Fellowship, December 8, 2022

Nowruz Journal — A Conversation with Niloufar Talebi on The Persian Rite of Spring, May 2022

Mizan Journal — Abraham in Flames: Songs of Resolve and Resilience, September 17, 2021

Hannah Terry Blog — Niloufar Talebi uses the art of translation in her new hybrid memoir to keep a poet’s legacy alive, December 6, 2020

World Literature Today — 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Children’s and Young Adult Titles, September 30, 2020

Literary Hub — Toward Writing and Publishing Beyond Stereotypes, September 25, 2020

PEN America — Reading List: Essential Books by Iranians, September 27, 2020

Aster(ix) Journal — Translation and Power, Review of Self-Portrait in Bloom, January 9, 2020

Critical Flame — In Conversation with Zack Rogow on the occasion of Ahmad Shamlou’s birthday, December 11, 2019

San Francisco Chronicle — In classical and new music (Best of) 2019, women had all the best tunes, December 10, 2019

The Rumpus — A Hybrid Wonder: Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom,October 4, 2019

Parterre Box — There Will be Bloom (Abraham in Flames review), May 11, 2019

San Francisco Classical Voice — Abraham in Flames Burns Brightly at Z Space (review), May 11, 2019

World Literature Today —  Ahmad Shamlou on the World Stage: A Conversation with Niloufar Talebi, May 9, 2019

Hyperalleric — Translating the Legacy of Ahmad Shamlou, One of Iran’s Greatest Poets, May 8, 2019

San Francisco Chronicle — Shadowy and operatic, ‘Abraham’ explores a young girl’s psyche (Joshua Kosman review), May 11, 2019

San Francisco Chronicle — Abraham in Flames is Joshua Kosman’s Chronicle Datebook Pick, May 8, 2019

Mercury News — New Opera: Abraham in Flames erupts on SF’s Z Space Stage, May 6, 2019

San Francisco Classical Voice — Abraham in Flames: Art and Authenticity Through a Persian Lens, May 6, 2019

KPFA Radio — Interview with Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, May 3, 2019

I Care if You Listen — 5 Questions to Niloufar Talebi and Aleksandra Vrebalov, April 30, 2019

Operawire — Q&A: Abraham in Flames and Being a Multifaceted Creator, November 7, 2018

San Francisco Classical Voice — So You Want to Make an Opera, September 27, 2018

Huffington Post — Truth, Justice, and Memory: On Trials by Fire in the Art of Iran and America, May 26, 2017

KALW Your Call with Rose Aguilar — Abraham in Flames Sneak Peek at the SF International Arts Fest, May 23, 2017

World Literature Today — Review of Vis and I, September 2017

Pusteblume Journal — Presence, Time, and Resistance in Farideh Razi’s Vis and I, Summer 2017

Small Press Book Review — Review of Farideh Razi’s Vis & I, December 2016

Art & Culture Today — The Exuberant “Epiphany: the Cycle of Life” at Brooklyn Academy of Music, January 16, 2016

Metro Active — The Plentiful Peach Mashes Ideology and Art in Imaginative Performance, April 15, 2015

Voice of America — Interview about The Plentiful Peach (video in Persian), June 1, 2015

Communities Digital News — Bloody politics 2014: WNO’s new 20-minute American operas, Dec 5, 2014

Schleppy Nabucco's Opera Gonzo — The Future of Opera in 20 Minute Increments, November 29, 2014

The Washington Post — At Washington National Opera, 20-minute operas on the right track, November 23, 2014

Voice of America — The First Iranian Opera at the Kennedy Center (video in Persian), January 14, 2015

Medium — Niloufar Talebi: Prolific Geo-Artist (review of The Disinherited), Oct 14, 2015

Indie Opera Podcast — “Houston We Have A Problem” and Niloufar Talebi, May 2014

Arts Atlanta — Review of Fire Angels at the Atlanta Symphony, March 22, 2014

San Francisco Examiner — Persian “Night”, October 24, 2013

Huffington Post — Persian New Year 2012: Artist Breathes New Life Into Nowruz (review), March 20, 2012

Voice of America — On Creating Fire Angels (video in Persian), May 14, 2011

San Francisco Chronicle — Review of Fire Angels at Cal Performances, April 4, 2011

Financial Times — Review of Fire Angels at Cal Performances, April 2011

San Francisco Classical Voice — Review of Fire Angels at Cal Performances, April 3, 2011

The New York Times — Divine Life Force, Please Meet Truth and Existence, Fire Angels at Carnegie Hall, April 2011

WQXR — Jessica Rivera unveils Mark Grey’s Fire Angelsat Zankel Hall, March 29, 2011

Radio Zamaneh (audio in Persian) — Interview about Fire Angels, March 29, 2011

WBAI Radio Tahrir — Interview about Fire Angels, March 22, 2011 (my segments starts at min 34)

Radio Zamaneh (audio in Persian) — Interview about The Persian Rite of Spring, March 2011

PBS Frontline/Tehran Bureau — The Voice of Niloufar Talebi, March 2011

Harvard Review — Review of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World by Elizabeth T. Gray, 2011

New York Review of Books — Revealing the Real Iran by Claire Messud, 2010

Exiled Ink — Review of Belonging by Richard Jeffrey Newman, Summer 2009

WBAI Asia Pacific Forum — Interview: "From Ghazal to Zihitsu Conference" Queens College, March 2009

WNYC Leonard Lopate Show — The Iranian Poet Diaspora, Interview about Belonging, March 2009

SF Weekly — Iran Away, January 28, 2009

San Francisco Examiner — Talebi Addresses the State of Writing in Iran, January 29, 2009

Three Percent — Review of Belonging by Peter Connors, December 2008

Library Thing — Reviews of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, 2008

Inter Press Service — Q&A: "Longing for the Past Yet Belonging to the Present", August 1, 2008

Poets and Writers — Anthologies Offer Poetic Diplomacy, July/August 2008

Ex Libris — Review of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, July 2008

Payvand Magazine — Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World, June 12, 2008

San Francisco Examiner — S.F. Iran Literary Arts fest explores everyday life, November 12, 2007

Press Republican — Iranian Expression at PSU, Multimedia Forough Farrokhzad Conference, November 9, 2006

7X7 Magazine — “Most Likely to Make You Want to Learn Farsi”, September 2006

BBC Persian — World Poetry, Persian Flavor (in Persian), October 7, 2006

Rozaneh Magazine — Contemporary Persian Poetry Breathes New Life, Through Translation, September 14, 2006

Alternet — Poetry Far From Home, October 21, 2004