MA Student, The Graduate Center and Hunter College
Collections
Of One Pure Will (2021) – Trepidatio Publishing
Of One Pure Will (2019) – Egaeus Press
Magazine Editor Series
Anthologies (Editor)
Machinations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann (2019) – Ulthar Press
Novellas
Eviscerator (2018) – Eraserhead Press
The Visitor (2017) – Ulthar Press
Anonyma (2019) – Ulthar Press
Short Fiction
Sorcerer Machine (2014) – Shadows of the Past: The Arkham Horror Book Club Anthology
Dark Ocean (2017) – The Sirens Call Ezine Issue 31
As Unbreakable as the World (2017) – A Walk on the Weird Side, LASC Press
Time Disease (In The Waking City) (2017) – Necronomicon 2017 Memento Book
The Land of Other (2018) – Tragedy Queens, Clash Books
Of Marble and Mud (2018) – Nightscript IV, Chthonic Matter Press
The Wytch-Byrd of the Nabryd-Keind (2018) – Lackington’s Magazine Magics Issue 18
In the Room of Red Night (2018) – Test Patterns: Creature Features
Humlin (2019)
As with Alem (2019) – Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles, Chthonic Matter Press
Aenvalit (2019) – SYNTH Magazine Issue #1, Chthonic Matter Press
In the Way of Eslan Mendeghast (2019) – Vastarian Literary Journal Volume 2 Issue 1, Grimscribe Press
An Account Above Burnside Park (2019) -The Phantasmagorical Promenade
Ash in the Pocket (2019) – published in Of One Pure Will
folie à plusiers (2019) – published in Of One Pure Will
Ivisou (2019) – published in Of One Pure Will
Rithenslofer (The Corpses of Mer) (2019) – HUSH Media (audio)
The River (2019) – published in Of One Pure Will
The Sea Hoax (2019)- Horror for RAICES: A Charitable Anthology, Nightscape Press
The Irrational Dress Society (2020) – Weird Whispers
Фара Роуз Смит “Колдовская птица Набрид-Кюнт (2020) – Darker Magazine (Russia)
Electric Funeral (2020) – Expatpress.com
Poems
The Germ of the Earth (2017) – Spectral Realms #6, Hippocampus Press
Blue Broken Mind (2020) – spillwords.com
Oblivion Dances (2020) (Collection) – Wraith Press
Essays/Articles
In Conversation with Farah Rose Smith and Selena Chambers (2017) Resist and Refuse Issue 1
Curtains of the Impossible: A Remembrance of Sam Gafford (2019) – Dead Reckonings Issue 26, Hippocampus Press
Over the Black Bridge: Expansion, Psychogeography, and the Living City in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg (2019) – Vastarian Literary Journal Volume 2, Issue 3, Grimscribe Press
In Her Own Words: Ginny Ruffner, Urban Glass Quarterly #159 (Summer 2020)
Sketches in Silica, Urban Glass Quarterly Issue #160 (Autumn 2020)
Blog Writing
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER– New York, NY – MA in Biography and Memoir (2021-2022)
HUNTER COLLEGE– New York, NY – MA in English (2021-2022).
HUNTER COLLEGE– New York, NY – BA in Comparative Literature; Concentrations: Gothic Literature, Decadence/Symbolism, Russian Silver Age, Weird Fiction (2018-2020).
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN – Providence, RI – Professional Certificate in Digital Video Production and Animation (2017)
Praise for ANONYMA:
“ANONYMA is an explosion of language and imagery, dense and uncompromising. Filled with beauty, horror, and a cleansing rage, this book casts a searing eye over the corrupted relationship between women, men, and Art. A decadent treat.”
-Nathan Ballingrud, Author of THE VISIBLE FILTH and NORTH AMERICAN LAKE MONSTERS
The history of art is littered with Great Men and the Muses they use as stepping stones to brilliance. In this shockingly lyrical, endlessly rich and luxurious nightmare of a novel, the Muse turns. Yet, it is not so much a tale of vengeance or comeuppance as it is a heroine’s journey, as Anonyma survives doomscapes almost beyond imagination and the transgressions of mere men, mere artists, survives the horrors imposed upon the feminine to rediscover her own magic and power. Anonyma, novel and narrator, holds up a dark mirror to our paradigm of art as a kind of device for reducing women to Platonic ideals while staging theophanies for men. But she also holds the mirror to herself, her sisters, even, daring to hope, a daughter. Full of blood and love and despair and courage, this is a novel like few others I have encountered.
– Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Author of WEIRD TALES OF A BANGALOREAN
“Farah Rose Smith’s Anonyma is both passionate and despairing, showcasing a distinct point of view and a powerful aptitude for the relationship between content and form. Smith’s writing evaluates the darkest possibilities of artistic narcissism and self-loathing, bolstered by bleak philosophical insight and gorgeously lyrical prose. Essential reading for admirers of dark literature.”
– Mike Thorn, Author of DARKEST HOURS
“The painful intensities that Farah Rose Smith choreographs in her fiction are genuine, and urgent. For sensitivity, and for focus on the power of individual words, she is unmatched.”
— Michael Cisco, author of UNLANGUAGE AND ANIMAL MONEY
“Formidable would be an understatement, if one were talking about Farah Rose Smith’s recent narrative ANONYMA, which retains a reality of its own, singular in that Jacksonian sense, and perpetuating a personal mythology that speaks of haunts in several senses. You better get this before it gets you.”
—Duane Pesice, Author of BEFORE CRAZYTOWN and Itinerant Editor
Praise for THE IRRATIONAL DRESS SOCIETY:
“A delirious, reeling historical burlesque composed of linguistic bullets and gemlike rhetoric”
-Michael Cisco, author of UNLANGUAGE AND ANIMAL MONEY
“Putting down a copy of The Annotated Oscar Wilde and picking up this manifesto, this “vintage from another world”, I seem not to have skipped a beat. Out of The ID of one Farah Rose Smith comes this call to arms for Irrational Dress and Self-Creation as The Highest Form of Style, while at the same time a decadent wish-list for imagination’s boudoir.”
-The joey Zone, Somewhere in The 19th C.
“A curious and wonderful fable in which the odd is beautiful, the beautiful is dark, the ideas are strange, the strangeness is bittersweet, and the conclusion is deeply satisfying.”
– Rhys Hughes, Author of ORPHEUS ON THE UNDERGROUND
Praise for THE ALMANAC OF DUST:
“Reading THE ALMANAC OF DUST by Farah Rose Smith is akin to ingesting a hatful of magic mushrooms while blithely traipsing through the haunted ruins of Petra. You will emerge–if you ever do–utterly and forever transfigured. Her elegant, baroque, yet meticulous prose vividly and somberly limns a tortured love story, an alchemical quest, and a civilizational apocalypse. The alternately febrile and desultory ramblings of Bhodi Xeussofi–both across fantastical landscapes and through arcane spiritual and intellectual dimensions–will recall to the lucky reader the work of such past giants as William Hope Hodgson, J. K. Huysmans, Tanith Lee, Ben Hecht and, of course, Poe. Among her living peers, I find resonances with the stellar work of Darren Speegle, Brendan Connell, Michael Cisco and Jonathan Carroll. Smith’s novella is destined to rank among the best weird writings of the early twenty-first century.”
-Paul Di Filippo, author of THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY, A MOUTHFUL OF TONGUES, and others
“Farah Rose Smith’s THE ALMANAC OF DUST is filled with loss, longing, obsession, dissolution, and philosophy that rings of truth one moment, madness the next, and sometimes weirdly both at once. The story culminates in a truly breathtaking escalation of gorgeous and macabre, fantastical imagery. A decadent, poetic, powerful fable from a literary artist worth your notice.”
–Jeffrey Thomas, author of PUNKTOWN
“THE ALMANAC OF DUST is a savage tale of an alchemical romance gone wrong worthy of Orpheus and Eurydice. Once you become immersed in the soft, grey darkness of Farah Rose Smith’s prose, you won’t look back.”
-Selena Chambers, author of CALLS FOR SUBMISSION
“A gorgeous seductive dream, loosed from the grand era of the decadents that has been circling ever out of reach, only now captured and pinned on the written page. Impossible? No, viciously possible, if I might steal a haunting phrase from THE ALMANAC OF DUST.”
-Eric Schaller, author of MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AIR
“Dear sick soul, you have met the universe.” Farah Rose Smith’s THE ALMANAC OF DUST is a stunning work of visionary imagination reminiscent of the great Angela Carter. This numinous, experimental novelette presents the dissolution and loss of a couple’s intimate relationship, all set in a dust-choked world, like a nightmare-hybrid-landscape of Beckett’s Endgame and Hodgson’s The Night Land. In the background—via intersectional notes about and quotes from the titular, fictional tome—a bleak philosophy emerges, driven by a paradoxically dynamic, melancholic mental illness. An uncanny environmental/metaphysical catastrophe (internalized as self-neglect, grief, violence, and regret) dominates Smith’s wonderfully disjointed, powerful story/treatise. The Almanac of Dust is a book to cherish, and Farah Rose Smith is a distinctive, literary talent to watch.”
-Jon Padgett, author of THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM and founder of Thomas Ligotti Online
THE ALMANAC OF DUST is hypnotic, surreal, a kaleidoscope whose colors are a thousand shades of black. Here Farah Rose Smith has wrought a fine gothic parable of illness and loss, regret and separation, peppered here and there with tantalizing aphorisms from the mythical almanac that gives the story its title. The Silver City, the setting of the story’s shattering climax, is itself worth the price of admission – a grim Tartarus of death and decay that lingers long after the reader turns the final page.
-Matthew M. Bartlett, author of GATEWAYS TO ABOMINATION and CREEPING WAVES
Decadence, Symbolism, Surrealism, Gothic Fiction, Weird Fiction, the Russian 20th century, disability studies.
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