Summer Farah

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Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. Her chapbook I could die today and live again (Game Over Books) was featured in Electric Lit’s Favorite Poetry Collections of 2024”. In 2023, Summer served as columnist at Palette Poetry, writing POETRY DOUBLE FEATURES, putting two poetry collections in conversation each month. She has edited folios for a variety of magazines and journals, including: FIYAH Lit for the Palestine Solidarity issue ORIGINALITYISDEAD for Violet, Indigo, Blue, Etc., A Soft Reset, a CNF folio of video game writing for ANMLY, and others. With Lip Manegio, she curated a zine of art and writing inspired by the CW, NOTHING HERE IS CORRECT AND IT IS DELICIOUS. Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, the Pushcart Prize, a Hugo Award, and is anthologized in Heaven Looks Like Us, edited by George Abraham and Noor Hindi. Her essay "From Witness From Speech From Image: On Etel Adnan’s The Arab Apocalypse and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee" was an honorable mention for the 2025 Krause Essay Prize. She has received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts through the Microgrant for Palestinian Writers, attended the Winter ‘22 Tin House Workshop, was a 22-23 NBCC Emerging Critic Fellow, and is a Poetry Northwest Critic at Large. Summer is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle The Hungering Years is her debut poetry collection. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.