Nilufar Karimi is a poet, essayist and translator. She is the author of the book NUCLEAR DEAL which won the 2021 Noemi Press Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications such as World Literature Today, Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins and Denver Quarterly, and is anthologized in Green Linden Press's Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora. She is currently a Katzin Fellow at the University of California, San Diego.