Maryam ALA AMJADI is a leading young Iranian poet. She has worked as a Persian-to-English news interpreter at the Iranian Students News Agency in Tehran. Her collection of poetry, Me, I, and Myself was published in English and Persian in 2003, and more poems can be found in the Tehran Times Daily and the web magazine, Thanal. Awarded the silver medal in the 14th National Persian Literary Olympiad (2001), she is currently working towards her Masters Degree in English Literature at the University of Pune, India. She attends courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.