Nancy Kricorian


Nancy Jean Kricorian is an American author of the novels Zabelle and Dreams of Bread and Fire. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel "All the Light There Was" in March 2013.

Biography

Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Irene, a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter. She is of Armenian and French-Canadian descent. Kricorian, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. She is an award-winning and widely published poet who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia. 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
She was the coordinator of CODEPINK New York City from 2003-2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace. She was the Fall 2015 Writer-in-Residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, and a fellow of Women Mobilizing Memory project at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference. Kricorian is married to producer and screenwriter James Schamus.

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