Farah Ghafoor
Farah Ghafoor is an award-winning poet based in Toronto. Her critically acclaimed debut collection of poetry, Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025), explores the climate crisis through an economic and historical lens via the concept of value. Order here.
Striking, witty, devastating, romantic, complex yet surprisingly readable, Shadow Price was a finalist for the national Governor General's Award for Poetry, winner of the University of Toronto's E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, a CBC Best Poetry Book of the Year, a finalist for the Far Horizon's Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Tune in to her interview with Tom Power on Q, or her feature on CBC Radioactive to learn more.
Striking, witty, devastating, romantic, complex yet surprisingly readable, Shadow Price was a finalist for the national Governor General's Award for Poetry, winner of the University of Toronto's E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, a CBC Best Poetry Book of the Year, a finalist for the Far Horizon's Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the Toronto Book Award. Tune in to her interview with Tom Power on Q, or her feature on CBC Radioactive to learn more.
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Her poems have been commissioned for art exhibitions such as Who's Afraid of Labour Justice? (2025) by the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts, and Structural Integrity (2025) by Steelcase Art Projects, the latter of which she envisioned and consulted for. Featured widely in anthologies, post-secondary course curriculums, literary and general interest magazines, her interests lie in labour, power, complicity, and the relationships we have with the animate and inanimate world around us.
Born to Pakistani immigrants in New York State, she was raised in New Brunswick and southern Ontario, and earned her Bachelor of Management and Accounting from the University of Toronto. When she's not reading, writing, or researching, she enjoys decorating cakes, practicing maui thai, and birdwatching. |
