Fariha Róisín
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Author of How to Cure a Ghost
& Culture Editor for The Juggernaut! 
When I first encountered Fariha’s writing, I let out a sigh of relief. Was it refreshing? Yes. But there was something more. Her words allow us to feel visible. Fariha’s writing has the power to heal and transform. She pulls you into her stories until you’re at the edge of your seat, emphatically rooting for her subjects.
— Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers |
Fariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer, editor and podcaster based in Brooklyn.
With an interest in her Muslim identity, race, pop culture and film (as well as queerness and how that intersects with being a femme of color navigating a white world) she has written for Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Fusion, Village Voice, and others. Previously, she has co-written a self care column on The Hairpin, an astrology column for them, and was 1/4 of the writing team behind Samara’s TV series. She is currently the writer-at-large/culture editor for the new media company, The Juggernaut. From 2012 onwards she co-hosted Two Brown Girls, a podcast that centered brown and black voices in film and TV, emphasizing the importance of representation. In 2016 she co-hosted a podcast for the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) entitled Yo Adrian, which aired for one season. In 2017 she began writing, producing, and hosting a new series with TIFF called How Do You Solve A Problem Like, with the first season focusing on the lack of Asian leads in Hollywood, airing in spring of 2019. Fariha's debut poetry collection How To Cure A Ghost is forthcoming from Abrams, Fall 2019, as well as a journal on femme/non-binary body empowerment, entitled The Body Positive (Abrams, Fall 2019). She’s also working on her first novel, Like A Bird (Unnamed Press, Fall 2020). Twitter: @fariha_roisin Instagram: @fariha_roisin 
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