Athena Farrokhzad is active as a poet, dramatist, translator and literary critic. She made her debut in 2013 with Vitsvit (White Blight) and has since published three more poetry volumes. Her books have been translated into many languages and her plays have been performed on a lot of stages. She has translated poets as Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Juliana Spahr och Natalie Diaz into swedish.
Athena Farrokhzad taught at Biskops-Arnö writing school for many years. Now she works as a literary director at Kulturhuset in Stockholm together with her author colleague Ida Linde. She will combine that work with her professorship at LiU and will therefore hold the Tage Danielsson professorship on half-time for two years, instead of one.
