Athena Farrokhzad (Persian: آتنا فرخزاد, born 23 August 1983) is an Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, translator and literary critic.

[1] She is an instructor in the writing program at Nordens folk high school on the island of Biskops-Arnö in Lake Mälaren.

[2] In 2013, Farrokhzad published a collection of poems titled Vitsvit (White Blight) with Albert Bonniers Förlag.

[3] The same year, her translation into Swedish of work by the Romanian poet Svetlana Cârstean appeared,[4] and she made her debut as a playwright with Päron, which was performed by the youth section of Östgötateatern (the county theatre of Östergötland), directed by Kajsa Isakson.

[17] Gunnar Axén of the Moderate Party expressed the opinion that her decision to play the Ebba Grön song Beväpna er ("Arm yourselves") was inappropriate and claimed to have thrown out his television so he could stop paying the license fee.