Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer and editor from California. She is the author of I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024), poems inspired by the Legend of Zelda. For the 2024-2025 TV season, she is sending out essays about Supernatural at eveningconversations. Her debut full-length poetry collection The Hungering Years is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026.
In 2023, Summer was a columnist at Palette Poetry, writing POETRY DOUBLE FEATURES, putting two poetry collections in conversation in month. In 2021, she served as the poetry editor for the FIYAH Lit Palestine Solidarity issue. She also edited the folio ORIGINALITYISDEAD for Violet, Indigo, Blue, Etc.. For ANMLY, she edited a folio of video game writing. With Lip Manegio, she curated a zine of art and writing inspired by the CW television network, NOTHING HERE IS CORRECT AND IT IS DELICIOUS_. Her work was nominated for Best New Poets, the Pushcart prize, and a Hugo Award, and is anthologized in Heaven Looks Like Us. She attended the Winter ‘22 Tin House Workshop and is a 22-23 NBCC Emerging Critic Fellow. Previously, Summer was a book editor at Catapult and assistant at University of California Press. Check out her birthday zine, “& I was so young when I behaved 25,” poems inspired by Mitski, here.
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