Baker Artist Portfolios

Pantea Amin Tofangchi is an Iranian-American poet, writer, graphic designer, and art director. She writes poetry in English and essays, stories, and plays primarily in Persian, capturing in all of her literature themes of war, beauty, love, and censorship. Her literary work has been published in Ploughshares, Little Patuxent Review, Welter, Atlanta Review, and other journals, She won the International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review in 2018 and was named a finalist for both The National Poetry Series (2016) and the Georgia Poetry Prize (2018). Her story, Glazed with War, chronicles her life through the lens of her childhood experiences.

Pantea is also an award-winning graphic designer and art director with a passion for communication across mediums—text, video, audio, and design. She has led design teams, produced motivational projects, and taught Master's-level graphic design at the University of Baltimore.
Her life’s journey—shaped by the complexities of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War and immigrating to the United States in 2000—is a story of resilience, creativity, and cultural intersection. It's at this intersection that Pantea's artwork and literature reside; she brings her storytelling skills to her award-winning graphic designs, and applies the reverse with just as much ingenuity and care.

Presently, she is working on two projects: "Letters Adrift: A Postcard Poetry Collection" and "Utterly Loverly," a children’s book of animal poems and art.