Sarafa was the recipient of a SLS Summer Writing Scholarship and Grant,[1] and of the Marjorie Rappaport Award.[14] She earned 2nd place in the Chistell[1] Writing Contest for “To my Brother" and received the Hopwood Award for her poem "Olive".[15] Her poems have appeared in publications such as Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Avatar Review, Frigg Magazine, Litchfield Review, Cerebration, Foliate Oak, Diagram, Feile-Festa, mediterranean.nu, Tablet Review, and Voices in Wartime. Sarafa's work as a writer and columnist for Blackbook, Arte Fuse, GreenandSave, the Village Voice, NYArt Beat,[16] Scallywag & Vagabond[17] resulted in her founding Fractyll Culture Magazine. Based on the notion that ‘culture is a fractal’, whose "various spokes melodically amount to literature, travel, art, fashion, health, race and music", it underscores industry pioneers,[18] red carpet events and grassroots movements.[19]