Sareh Farmand was born in Tehran at the start of the Islamic Revolution, and grew up in Vancouver, BC. Her first book of poems, Pistachios in my Pocket (At Bay Press, Fall 2022), long listed for the Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry, follows a narrative arc that tells the story of her family’s escape from Iran and their experiences as first wave Iranian immigrants to Canada.
She holds degrees in International Relations and Education from UBC and is a 2018 graduate of SFU’s The Writing Studio.
Sareh is currently working on her second book with At Bay Press. You can find her musings on Instagram (@thewritersway) and Facebook (@thewritersway).
Sareh gratefully acknowledges that the land on which she writes and lives is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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