Biography
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice, and others. From 2012 to 2016 she co-hosted the podcast Two Brown Girls with writer and friend Zeba Blay.
She is currently the co-founder and director of Studio Ānanda, a space of cultivation and archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness; deputy editor of Violet Book, and sits on the Board of Directors at Find Center. She also teaches a quarterly class called Writing with Vulnerability and writes a weekly newsletter.
Róisín has published a book of poetry entitled How To Cure A Ghost (Abrams, 2019), as well as a journal called Being In Your Body (Abrams, 2019) and a novel named Like A Bird (Unnamed Press, 2020). Her second book of poetry is Survival Takes A Wild Imagination and will be published by Andrews McNeel, Fall 2023.