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Niloofar Fanaiyan

Ley Lines and the Rustling of Cedar


Recent Work Press, 2018

Niloofar Fanaiyan’s new book of poetry is a subtle, observant and gentle collection of poems that capture Fanaiyan’s unique voice, a voice searching for connections in and through all things, to find their dignified and respectful centre.


About the Author

Niloofar Fanaiyan is a writer and poet who has lived in the U.S., Australia, the Netherlands, Tanzania and Israel. She was the 2016 Donald Horne Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra, where she obtained her PhD. She received the Canberra Critics Circle Literary Award for Poetry for her book of poems titled Transit (RWP, 2016).