Leyli Salayeva is a writer and performance poet from Baku, Azerbaijan. She writes poems and short stories in English and studies the various facets of female soul. Leyli has authored an award-winning children’s book Dilber and Her

Spoonful Journey and two poetry books: Twelve Thirteen and Youtopia.In my poetry I explore a nature of female character, a matrix composed from individual portraits of existing personalities surrounding me and fictional ones that I revive in my works. Because of that, my poems are constructed in a constellation of continuous narration of my alter ego and its communication with the outer world