Farrah Sarafa is an Arab-American poet, scholar, writer, and professor based in Manhattan, New York City. Early life and education Sarafa was born to a Palestinian mother and an Iraqi father, and she grew up in Bloomfield Hills. She has a master's degree from Columbia University where she studied under Edward Said. She won second place in the Chistell Writing Contest as well as the Hopwood Prize for her poem Olive. She also has a master's degree from The University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2004, she won the The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry. As an academic, she has taught at Columbia University in New York City where she spoke on the panel "Growing up Iraqi in the United States". As of 2022, she was working a Professor of Literature and Modern Languages at Pace University. She founded Fractyll Culture Magazine in 2016. Selected publications Academic * Re-writing Algerian Nationalism Through the Discourse of the Woman was published by the University of California Press, 2006 Books * Distortion and Desire, Shadow Poetry, 2006, ISBN 9781932447620 Poems * Palestine Fig * Olive * The Dead Sea<ref name=":0" /> * Blood, Sand, and Tears of a Young Boy<ref name=":0" />
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