Aida Zilelian is a first generation American-Armenian writer, educator and storyteller from Queens, NY. She is the author of The Legacy of Lost Things, recipient of the Tololyan Literary Award. She has been performing at storytelling events in NYC, Boston, Montreal and Los Angeles. Aida has also been featured in the Huffington Post, NPR’s Takeaway, among other reading series and print outlets. Her short story collection These Hills Were Meant for You was shortlisted for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction and her short story “The Piano” won first prize in the Lighthouse Weekly contest. Her poem “The Escape Artist”, finalist in the Sand Hills poetry contest, is forthcoming in the fall. She is currently working on completing Where There Can Be No Breath At All, a short story collection written through the perspective of diasporan Armenians. Read more about her here.
Aida Zilelian
