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Nancy Agabian

Nancy Agabian

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Nancy Agabian is a writer, teacher, and literary organizer, working in the spaces between race, ethnicity, cultural identity, feminism and queer identity. Her recent novel “The Fear of Large and Small Nations” was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. She is the author of Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books, 2008), a memoir that was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Writing Prize, and Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a collection of poetry and performance texts.

Her personal essays that explore liminal spaces of identity have been published in The Margins, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Kweli Journal and the Nauset Press anthology, Fierce: Essays by and about Dauntless Women. She teaches creative writing through the lens of social justice at universities and art centers, most recently at NYU and The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in SoHo. From 2001—2010, she brought together progressive and traditional sensibilities of the NYC Armenian community through the literary reading series, Gartal.

In 2021, she won Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. The award, named after the esteemed author and activist, honors lesbian/queer authors who write with great depth and complexity about the lesbian/queer experience, including life, history, and culture.

She is a featured panelist/reader at our Aracheneer or “Firsts” Pride 2021 event.

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