Shahram Shiva

Shahram Shiva (Persian: شهرام شیوا‎) is a performance poet, award-winning translator, scholar, author, lecturer, and a recording artist, whose principal subject is Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet.

Shahram Shiva was born in Persia to a family of Jewish heritage and migrated to the US in his mid teens. He has been translating Rumi's poetry since 1988.

Since 2009 Shahram Shiva has expanded his repertoire to include new original lyrics and songs. In addition to performances, he conducts talks and lectures on the future of spirituality, consciousness expansion and freeing the mind from the bondage of dogma and methods of control.