Elhum Shakerifar studied Persian Literature at Oxford University. She is a BAFTA-nominated producer and curator of film, and 2017 recipient of the Women in Film & Television Award for her documentary work. She is co-translator with Maura Dooley of Azita Ghahreman's Negative of a Group Photograph (Farsi title: نگاتیو یک عکس دسته جمعی), published by Bloodaxe Books with the Poetry Translation Centre in October 2018. Negative of a Group Photograph was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019.
