Nancy Agabian

Nancy Agabian's essays have been published in The Margins, Kweli, The Brooklyn Rail, Pangyrus, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. She is the author of The Fear of Large and Small Nations, a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, recently published by Nauset Press. Her previous books include Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books), a collection of poetry and performance art texts, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books), a memoir honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize. In 2021 she was awarded Lambda Literary Foundation’s Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. A longtime creative writing professor at New York University and the City University of New York, she has also led creative writing workshops in communities such as multicultural performers in Los Angeles; women in Yerevan, Armenia; first-generation writers in Queens, NY; and queer folx in NYC. She currently serves on the board of the International Armenian Literary Alliance.