Nancy Kricorian

Nancy Jean Kricorian (Armenian: Նենսի Կրիկորյան) is an American author of the novels Zabelle (1997)[1] and Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003).[2] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel "All the Light There Was" in March 2013.

Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,[3] the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter.[4] She is of Armenian (father) and French-Canadian (mother) descent.[5][6] Kricorian, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.[3] She is an award-winning and widely published poet who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia.[3][7] She is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly, the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project, and is a NAASR member.

Her work was part of the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books for which she wrote a piece based upon Ecclesiastes, a book of the King James Bible[8]

She was the coordinator of CODEPINK NYC[9] from 2003-2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace. She is married to producer and screenwriter James Schamus.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Steinberg, Sybil S. (November 24, 1997). "Zabelle", Publishers Weekly 244 (48): 53.
  2. ↑ Zaleski, Jeff (May 26, 2003). "Dreams of Bread and Fire", Publishers Weekly 25
  3. 1 2 3 http://www.goodreads.com/nancykric
  4. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3417500109/kricorian-nancy-1960.html
  5. ↑ http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15784/proverbs-politics-and-paris_an-interview-with-nanc
  6. ↑ http://nancykricorian.net/page/6/
  7. ↑ http://www.palfest.org/Author/nancy_kricorian.html
  8. ↑ http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/
  9. ↑ http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=331
  10. ↑ Carroll, Jerry (March 19, 1998). "Two writing powers", San Francisco Chronicle, p. E2.


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