Selected Work
Publications & Press
Awards & Honors
- Perugia Press Prize 2026, for the debut collection Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead
- Jane Underwood Poetry Prize 2025, “To the Purple Dye Inserted into My Uterus” (The Writing Salon; judged by Matthew Olzmann)
- Tupelo Press’ Dorset Prize Contest 2025, Finalist
- University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry 2025, Finalist
- Money for Women / Barbara Deming Memorial Fund 2025, Grant
- Fresno State’s Philip Levine Prize for Poetry 2025, Semi-Finalist
- Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry 2025, Semi-Finalist
- University of North Texas Press Vassar Miller Prize 2025, Semi-Finalist
- Trio Press Award 2025, Finalist
- Perugia Press Prize 2025, Finalist
- The Journal / Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize 2025, Finalist
- Frontier Poetry Hurt & Healing Prize 2025, Finalist, “Blood Like a Skillet”
- New Ohio Review Poetry Contest 2024, Co-winner, “Thinking About My Father’s Erector Set” (judged by Naomi Shihab Nye)
- Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize 2024, Second place, CALYX Press, “On accidentally getting pregnant at age 45 in America in 2024”
- Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2024, Funding to attend the Kenyon Review Summer Workshop for Teachers
- Jane Underwood Poetry Prize, Semifinalist 2021, 2023, and 2024 (The Writing Salon)
Selected publications
- “Thinking About My Father’s Erector Set”
- “Reading a Book of Armenian Baby Names the Night Before My Water Broke”
- “Holes”·“How to Use a Mouth”·“Where Exactly Is Armenia”
- “Walking into St. James Cathedral as If We Were Already Ghosts”·“My Father and I View Two Versions of Arshile Gorky's The Artist and His Mother”
- “Self-Portrait as Second Version”
- “The House in Jerusalem”·“Imagine the Light Shining Everything False”·“Jerusalem Candy”·“Jerusalem Toys, May 1948”·“Sipping Silence”
- “Giving Myself a B+ for Disaster Management”·“Mystery is the son who sneaks in my bed at 3 am”
- “The Night of her Funeral”
- “Once I thought I could save people”
- “The Sand of the Syrian Desert Apologizes to the Armenians after the Genocide”
- “Waiting”
- “On accidentally getting pregnant at age 45 in America in 2024”
- “My Uncle Offers Me a Cow”
- “Page 271 from the Glossary of Armenian Terms”
- “The Sand of the Syrian Desert Apologizes to the Armenians after the Genocide”·“Waiting”
- “How to Teach Atom Egoyan's Ararat to Twelfth Graders”
- “Self-Portrait as Second Version”·“The Night of her Funeral”·“How to Teach Atom Egoyan's Ararat to Twelfth Graders”
- “Thinking About My Father’s Erector Set”
- “Why My Father Insisted on Us Arriving Early at Ben Gurion Airport”
- “Journal for Pomegranates”
- “Prayer on a Bicycle”
- “Inheritance”
- “Why My Father Insisted on Us Arriving Early at Ben Gurion Airport”
- “Monroe, Washington”
- “When a Turk is in a hostel kitchen”
- “After the Burn”
- “Armenian Hair”·“Armenian Restaurant in Arkansas”·“Being Armenian”
- “Monroe, Washington”
- “Armenian Wedding”
- “Evening in Bethlehem”
- “If I hadn't broken my hip”·“There is something about a beautiful woman on crutches”
- “The Next Generation”
- “Visiting the Moon”
- “Milk”
- “A House on the Seam”
- “Post-Op”
- “Picasso's Parts”
- “Homeland”
In the press
- Glendale Workshops Encourage Nascent Poets
- Poets Laureate Inspire Creativity at Glendale Poetry Workshops
- Painted Bride Quarterly Episode 139: The Ghosts of Figueroa
- Bay Area Authors Share Rituals That Help Close Out the Holiday Season
- The Page Turner, discussion of Ada Limón’s The Carrying
- Interview on The Hive Poetry Collective
- New Los Gatos Poet Laureate Says Role Is “Made for Me”