About
Children’s author. Based in Yerevan.
Every writer has a room where it all began. Mine belonged to Roza tatik.
When I was a kid, we didn't have a big library at home. But my grandparents had a neighbor, Roza tatik, who kept an entire room just for her books, and I was one of the few people she let inside. I spent hours in that room, running my fingers along the spines, dreaming that one day I'd have a library of my own. She would lend me her encyclopedias, those big green volumes, and opening them felt like stepping into the world of knowledge itself. Today, every piece of information is a click away, but I still get butterflies remembering the joy of tracking something down page by page. I write to create that magic for other children.
“We make the road by walking.” My books are my way of walking.
I was born and raised in Gyumri, and the city is written into everything I do. I grew up among its stone houses, its craftsmen and its jokes, its wounds and its resiliency. Gyumri taught me that stories live in ordinary places: in courtyards, in buildings, in the memory of neighbors.
I hold a master's degree in Education from the University of Glasgow and a bachelor's degree from the American University of Armenia, where I now teach. Alongside writing, I have spent years as a nonprofit professional, designing and leading child protection, psycho-social support, and education programs across Armenia, and as a researcher in oral history, education, and women's studies, recording the lives and voices that official histories tend to skip.
I always wanted a career with grassroots impact, and I built one. My work feeds my books, and my books feed my work. I can no longer tell where one ends and the other begins, and I wouldn't want to.
Practice
Now
Author of inclusive children’s literature
The published books are still traveling: into schools, workshops, and reading corners across Armenia and beyond. Meanwhile, new concepts are taking shape on my desk, this time exploring culture and science.
Ongoing
Educator & nonprofit professional
Teaching, training, and building programs with nonprofits across Armenia. The classroom and the community are where my stories come from, and where they return.
Ongoing
Oral historian & researcher
I research at the intersection of oral history, education, and women’s studies: recording lives and voices that official histories tend to skip. Listening to people tell their own stories is where my books quietly begin.
Also
Human of two dogs
I share my life with two dogs I love to pieces. They hear every draft first, and so far they have approved of everything.
