Sepideh Jodeyri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sepideh Jodeyri

Iranian poet

Date of Birth: 23-May-1976

Place of Birth: Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, Iran

Profession: writer, poet, translator, journalist, linguist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Sepideh Jodeyri (Persian: ????? ?????? born 23 May 1976, corresponding to 2 Khordâd 1355 by the Iranian calendar, in Ahvaz, Iran) is an acclaimed Iranian poet, literary critic, translator and journalist living in Washington DC, United States.A winner of the Jovellanos International Poetry Prize, ‘The Best Poem in the World’ in 2015 for one of her poems, Chãk, and a graduate in chemical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Jodeyri has published several works, including six poetry collections, a collection of short stories and an anthology of her poems.
Her articles and interviews have been published in Iranian newspapers and magazines as well as European ones.
She has also translated poetry books by Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges as well as the graphic novel, Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh into Persian.In the aftermath of the highly contested 2009 presidential election in Iran, which resulted in the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2009-2013), Jodeyri spoke publicly in support of the pro-democracy movement (known as Iranian Green Movement).
Shortly after, Jodeyri's works were banned inside Iran, her close friends were put in prison, forcing her to leave the country and move to Italy in February 2011.
She stayed two years in Italy as the guest writer of ICORN.
Jodeyri, her husband and her son live in Washington DC, the United States right now.