 Her third collection in English is called "When They Broke Down the Door" which has received Latifeh Yarshater award in 2016 for unique and groundbreaking developments in the form of Ghazal.Shams is currently a member of London Middle East Institute, University of SOAS, Middle East Centre at University of Pennsylvania and assistant professor of Modern Persian Literature at University of Pennsylvania.Born in 1983 in Mashhad, Shams started to write poetry at the age of 14 under the influence of poets such as Simin Behbahani, Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, Esmail Khoi.