Nancy Agabian

Nancy Agabian is an American writer, activist, and teacher, currently lecturing at New York University, Gallatin. She is of Armenian origin, and her memoir about her childhood, Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, won Lambda Literary's Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction.

Career

Agabian is an Armenian-American writer, who studied at Columbia University's School of the Arts.[1] In 2000, she published a collection of essays, poetry, and non-fiction pieces titled Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque).[2] In 2008, she published a memoir, titled Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books). The memoir was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2009,[3] was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize,[2] and won the Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Non-fiction in 2021.[4] In 2006, she received a Fulbright Fellowship as well as a Lambda Literary Fellowship in 2012, to write about Armenian identity and history.[5] Agabian has written a novel, The Fear of Large and Small Nations (Nauset Press) about the Armenian diaspora, based on her research conducted during her Fulbright Fellowship, which was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.[2]

Agabian teaches creative writing at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, and at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.[6] She has also worked to promote and preserve Armenian writing in America.[6]

Bibliography
  • Me as Her Again (Aunt Lute Books, 2008) ISBN 9781939904041
  • Princess Freak: Poems and Performances (Beyond Baroque Books, 2000) ISBN 1892184079
  • (edited) Fierce: Essays by and about Dauntless Women (Nauset Press, 2019) ISBN 0990715450
  • The Fear of Large and Small Nations (Nauset Press, 2022)

Awards and honors
Year Award For Reference
2021 Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Non-fiction Me as Her Again [4]
2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction The Fear of Large and Small Nations [2]
Shortlisted, William Saroyan International Prize Me as Her Again [2]
2009 Shortlisted, Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction Me as Her Again [3]

References
  1. "Alumna Nancy Agabian '03 Wins Lambda Literary's 2021 Jeanne Córdova Prize, Alumnae Among Finalists". Columbia - School of the Arts. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  2. "Nancy Agabian, Columbia University".
  3. Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (2010-02-18). "21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  4. "2021 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  5. Literary, Lambda. "Nancy Agabian". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  6. Lewis, LeKesha (2021-08-02). "5 Questions with Jeanne Córdova Prize Winner Nancy Agabian". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
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