Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and raised in Los Angeles. She has published six novels, including a trilogy of books about the Armenian genocide and its aftermath in the 20th century. She has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the US Artists’ Foundation. Her first novel, Three Apples Fell From Heaven, was a New York Times Notable Book and Runner-Up for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction, and her second novel, The Daydreaming Boy, won the PEN/USA Award for Fiction. Marcom is also the founder and Creative Director of The New American Story Project [NASP], a digital storytelling project exploring the forces of migration and the lives of new Americans www.newamericanstoryproject.org. Marcom splits her time between Northern California and Charlottesville, Virginia where she is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.