Shahram Shiva

Who is Shahram Shiva?

Shahram Shiva is a performance poet, award-winning translator, scholar, author, teacher of advanced spirituality, 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 began translating Rumi's poetry at a young age in 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.