Rosa Jamali (Persian: رزا جمالی; born 1977 in Tabriz) is an Iranian poet, translator, literary critic, and playwright.

[1] Her debut collection of poems, This Dead Body is Not an Apple, It Is Either a Cucumber or a Pear, was published in 1997 and announced a major new voice in Iranian poetry.

The book opened Persian poetry to new creative possibilities.

She has been praised in her recent collections for combining present-day settings with Persian mysticism.

The Dark Room, Essays on Rosa Jamali's Poetry, edited by Reza Shalbafan