Jila (Zhila) Hosseini (1964–1996), poet,[1] writer, researcher and radio announcer, was born on September 22, 1964, in Saqqez, Iran and was the first Kurdish woman to compose modern poems instead of classical poetry.

She had a supporting family and Sheikh Abdul Qadir, her father's grandfather, was a calligrapher and poet.

Under the situation that all educational Centers including universities and Schools were closed caused by Iranian Cultural Revolution, She got married at a young age but her tendency towards modernity influenced her private life and she divorced once.

At the age of 32 while going to visit the great poet of Kurdistan, Sherko Bekas, she died in a car accident.

[8] Some of Jila's poems are published as follows: Jila (Zhila) Hosseini's poems "Night Story", "Question" and "Bliss" have been translated into English by Haidar Khezri and Tyler Fisher for Y’alla (University of Texas at Austin)[13] and Poet Lore.