Shahram Shiva is an author, award-winning translator and performer of Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic poet. Born in Iran, Shiva is perhaps the only major presenter of Rumi in the West who speaks the native language of Rumi and thus has an unadulterated access to these original Persian poems. Since 1988, Shiva has translated several hundred of Rumi's poems and his translations have also been utilized by many Western Rumi interpreters. He is a longtime practitioner of Eastern mystical traditions (including Sufism) and an adept in the Persian mystical terminology.
