Farrah Sarafa

Author's Bio

Professor of English and Foreign Modern Languages, writer and translator, Farrah is editing her first creative nonfiction novel.

Publications and Prizes

Journals:

Arabesques Review, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Avatar Review, Cerebration, Diagram, Feile-Festa, Foliate Oak, Frigg Magazine, mediterranean.nu, Tablet, The Litchfield Review, Voices in Wartime

Prizes:

-Marjorie Rappaport Competition -Chistell Annual Contest -SLS Summer Writing Scholarship and Grant

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale, Mad in Pursuit by Violette Leduc , The Warhol Economy by Claire Messud, The Diaries, 1-5 by Anais Niin

Favorite Books:

*Second Sex -Simone de Beauvoir *Orientalism -Edward Said *A Lover's Discourse -Roland Barthes

Favorite Authors:

Hawthorne, Tolkien, Isabella Allende, DH Lawrence, Kate Chopin, Sophocles Oscar Wilde ...

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Listing last updated: May 24, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Arab American

Fluent in:

Arabic, English, French, Italian

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