Born: 1983, Turkey
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: سولماز شریف
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Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Recent work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, jubilat, and others. Her work has been honored with a “Discovery”/Boston Review poetry prize, as well as a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University where she is working on a poetic rewrite of the U.S. Department of Defense’s dictionary.