Fareh Malik is an author from the Greater Toronto Area who is also an experienced spoken word poet. He has been named the 2023 winner of the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence, the 2022 PEN Canada New Voices Award winner, and his debut book Streams that Lead Somewhere was the winner of the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Fareh has been included in Best of the Net, Best Canadian Poetry, and Poems in Passage.