Nancy Kricorian

Kricorian was born in Watertown, Massachusetts,[3] the daughter of Irene (Gelinas), a child care provider, and Edward L. Kricorian, a meatcutter.[4] She is of Armenian (father) and French-Canadian (mother) descent.[5][6]

Kricorian graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982 and gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1987.[7][3] She is an award-winning[8] and widely published poet who has taught at Yale, Queens College, Rutgers, and Columbia.[3][9] She is a former member of the editorial board of Ararat Quarterly, the advisory board of the Armenia Tree Project,[10] and is a NAASR member.[11]

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[12]

She was the coordinator of CODEPINK New York City[13] from 2003-2010, and is currently on the national staff of CODEPINK Women for Peace. She was the Fall 2015 Writer-in-Residence at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University,[14] and a fellow of Women Mobilizing Memory project at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference.[15] Kricorian is married to producer and screenwriter James Schamus.[16]

• Women Mobilizing Memory Fellow at The Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University (2013-2017)
• PEN American Center (2003)
• Ararat Literary Quarterly Editorial Board (1998-2004)
• Armenia Tree Project Executive Committee (2001-2016)[10]
• CODEPINK Women for Peace (2003-2016)[13]
• Board of the National Association of Armenian Studies and Research (2016)[11]

• Writer in Residence, Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies, New York University, Fall
• 2015
• Gold Medal of the Writers Union of Armenia, 2007
• Anahid Literary Award, The Armenian Center at Columbia University, 1998
• Ararat Short Story Prize, 1997
• Daniel Varoujan Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1995
• Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., January 1991
• Educational Press Award, Editorial Category, 1991
• Judith's Room Emerging Talent Prize, 1990
• River Styx Poetry Prize, 1990
• Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, l988
• Tuition Scholarship, School of Criticism and Theory, l988
• Academy of American Poets Prize, Columbia, l987
• Residency, Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France, Summer l986
• Finalist, Benjamin Burns Poetry Contest, Columbia, l985
• Graduate Writing Fellowship, Columbia, l985
• Claire Woolrich Scholarship, Columbia, l984
• Dartmouth Graduate Fellowship to the University of Paris, l983-l984
• Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth, l982
• Senior Fellowship, Creative Writing, Dartmouth, l98l
• The Alexander Laing Poetry Prize, Dartmouth, l980 and l98l