She is best known for her work on documenting Southwest writers and art and life in El Paso, Texas.
Farah was born in Long Island to a military family, and came to El Paso when she was ten.
[11] The Santa Fe Reporter wrote that Literature & Landscape "missed the mark," and felt "incomplete," but that it was also "worth taking a look at.
[15] The book covers the history of murals in the city, includes interviews with ten Chicano artists and color photographs.
[15] The El Paso Times wrote, "Farah's photographs, while undersized and too blue in the volume, nonetheless convey a documentary representation of the murals.