Badri Tarvij (; born October 7, 1932 in Mashhad; died February 2, 2017 in New York City) was an Iranian poet. She mainly wrote in the literary genre of ghazal in Persian. She started poetry at the age of ten. Her poems were published in Iranian newspapers in the 1970s. Later, she published two anthologies titled Haleh (1975; Halo) and Beh jormi keh zan shodam (1996; For the offense of being a woman). In 2003 in New York City, she wrote a saqi-nameh ( letter to the cupbearer) in the genre of masnavi, which is claimed to be the only saqi-nameh ever written by a female poet. Beside above genres, she wrote poems in do-bayti, qasida, robaee, and modern poetry.
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