Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker 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. Her debut full-length poetry collection The Hungering Years is forthcoming from Host Publications in 2026. She sends out the occasional essay, mostly about Supernatural, at eveningconversations.
In 2023, Summer served a columnist at Palette Poetry, writing POETRY DOUBLE FEATURES, putting two poetry collections in conversation in month. She has guest edited or curated 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, video game writing at ANMLY, and others. 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 has been nominated for Best New Poets, the Pushcart Prize, and a Hugo Award, and is anthologized in Heaven Looks Like Us. She has received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts through the Microgrant for Palestinian Writers. She attended the Winter ‘22 Tin House Workshop, was a 22-23 NBCC Emerging Critic Fellow, and a Poetry Northwest Critic at Large. 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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