Nancy Kricorian is the author of four novels focused on post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience. Her most recent book, The Burning Heart of the World, is about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War. Her essays and poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, The Markaz Review, Guernica, Parnassus, Minnesota Review, The Mississippi Review, and other journals. She has taught at Barnard, Columbia, Rutgers, Yale, and New York University, as well as for Teachers & Writers Collaborative in the New York City Public Schools. She has been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers since 2015, and she lives in New York.
Sponsor(s): The Promise Armenian Institute, Center for Near Eastern Studies, HASOM Armenian Music Program, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)