Published in 2023, We Are All Armenian: Voices From The Diaspora edited by Aram Mrjoian brings together established and emerging Armenian authors to reflect on the complications of Armenian ethnic identity today. It is the first [*] anthology of Armenian writing to equitably include Queer Armenian writers.
Anthology contributors include Liana Aghajanian, Naira Kuzmich, Sophia Armen, Kohar Avakian, Nancy Kricorian, Olivia Katrandjian, Chris McCormick, Nancy Agabian, Chris Bohjalian, Aline Ohanesian, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Anna Gazmarian, J. P. Der Boghossian, Raffy Boudjikanian, Hrag Vartanian, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Carene Rose Mekertichyan, and Scout Tufankjian.
Queer Armenian contributors include: Hrag Vartanian, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Sophia Armen, Nancy Agabian, and J.P. Der Boghossian
Aram Mrjoian is a writer, editor, critic, and educator whose writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Guardian, Runner’s World, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. He is an editor-at-large at the Chicago Review of Books, an associate fiction editor at Guernica, and a 2022 Creative Armenia–AGBU Fellow.
We Are All Armenian brings together established and emerging Armenian authors to reflect on the complications of Armenian ethnic identity today. These personal essays elevate diasporic voices that have been historically silenced inside and outside of their communities, including queer, multiracial, and multiethnic writers. The eighteen contributors to this contemporary anthology explore issues of displacement, assimilation, inheritance, and broader definitions of home. Through engaging creative nonfiction, many of them question what it is to be Armenian enough inside an often unacknowledged community.
From the book description
Literary Lights: Featuring We Are All Armenian
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ISBN: 978-1-47732-679-4. Published by University of Texas Press.
