Nancy Kricorian is an American

United States

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 author of the novels Zabelle (1997) and Dreams of Bread and Fire (2003).

Kricorian, a graduate of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

, has a Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

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 degree from Columbia University

Columbia University

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. She is an award-winning and widely published poet who has taught at Yale

Yale University

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, Queens College, Rutgers

Rutgers University

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, and Columbia. She is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly

Ararat Quarterly

Ararat Quarterly is an international quarterly of literature, history, popular culture and the arts published in EnglishThe quarterly is published by the Armenian General Benevolent Union in New York, NY....

, the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project

Armenia Tree Project

Armenia Tree Project is a non-profit organization based in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, and Yerevan, Armenia founded in 1994 by Carolyn Mugar to promote Armenia's socioeconomic development through reforestation....

, and is a NAASR member.

She will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre

Bush Theatre

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's 2011 project Sixty Six where she has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible

She is the coordinator of CODEPINK NYC and is married to screenwriter James Schamus

James Schamus

James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter The Ice Storm and producer Brokeback Mountain, and is CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company whose films have included Lost in Translation, Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The...

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