Her debut book, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر , was published in Sept 2022. It won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, selected by Tracy K. Smith, from Kent State University Press, and received a Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly and an Honorable Mention from the Foreword Indies.

Farnaz is Santa Cruz County’s Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024. You can find out more about her work as Poet Laureate here.

She is a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective, which presents a weekly radio show and podcast in Santa Cruz County and hosts readings and poetry-related events.

She was formerly a writing instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.