Fargo Tbakhi

Fargo Tbakhi (born 1997) is a Palestinian American writer, poet, and performance artist. His debut poetry collection, TERROR COUNTER, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry.

Career and reception Tbakhi moved to Phoenix, Arizona, when he was 12, and later studied theater at Arizona State University. The performance was later staged at the Capital Fringe Festival in 2022 and at Rhizome DC in 2023.

His short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Apex Magazine, and his essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Protean. He is a recipient of the Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize.

Deep Vellum published Tbakhi's debut poetry collection, TERROR COUNTER, in 2025. The book was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry.

Tbakhi's short story "Root Rot" has received critical attention. It was included in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022, edited by Rebecca Roanhorse with series editor John Joseph Adams, and a Strange Horizons review of the anthology called it "the single best piece on offer".

Works Poetry collections TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025)

Selected short fiction and essays "12 Worlds Interrupted by the Drone" (Strange Horizons, 2020) "Root Rot" (Apex Magazine, 2021) Dispatches from an Unoccupied Future: Reflections on the Palestine Writes Festival (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021) "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide" (Protean, 2023)