Hye-Eli Episode 018 - Nancy Agabian
Hye-Eli is finally back after a bit of a break. Our guest this week is writer Nancy Agabian.
Nancy is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000), a collection of poems and performance art texts. Her writing has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Birthmark: A Bilingual Anthology of Armenian-American Poetry (Open Letter Press, 1999), Scream When You Burn, an anthology from Caffeine Magazine (Incommunicado, 1998), and Hers 2: Brilliant New Fiction from Lesbian Writers (Faber & Faber, 1997). Her recently completed memoir, which will be published soon, Me as her again, explores her Armenian-American family’s influence on her coming-of-age, especially the stories of her feminist mother and survivor grandmother. Nancy lives in New York City, where she teaches writing and coordinates GARTAL, an Armenian literary reading series.
If you are interested in attaining a copy of Matnashoonch, the women’s anthology Nancy worked on in Yerevan last summer, you can go to www.metispresses.ch/uto_matnas.html and if you are interested in getting a copy of
(An)daratsutian Mej, the book Nancy worked on with Shushan Avagyan and Lara Aharonian you can email us at info@hye-eli.com
Please join us next week when our guest will be musician Armen Chakmakian.
Until then wishing you a great week!
