Los Angeles, California
Writing of Witness
with Elizabeth Rosner
Words of Witness Fellowship
I am a writer whose work grapples with transgenerational trauma, memory and identity. I write from the interstice of my first-generation idealism and my grandmother’s Armenian villager-pragmatism. I write toward my own freedom and toward the freedom of all displaced peoples from Artsakh to Palestine and beyond. I write about grief and in times of grief because it is the most powerful articulation of love. I am the winner of Ninth Letter’s Creative Nonfiction Prize and my work appears in DIAGRAM journal. I am a lecturer at California State University, Northridge and live in Los Angeles with my dog, Bailey.