Background
Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter.
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Nancy Kricorian
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Dartmouth College; Columbia University.
Career
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her third novel "All the Light There Was" in March 2013. She is of Armenian (father) and French-Canadian (mother) descent. Kricorian, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.
She is an award-winning and widely published poet who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia.
Her work was part of the Bush Theatre"s 2011 project Sixty Six Books for which she wrote a piece based upon Ecclesiastes, a book of the King James Bible
She was the coordinator of CODEPINK New York City from 2003-2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace.
Membership
She is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly, the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project, and is a NAASR member.
