Arminé Iknadossian is an Armenian-American poet, educator, and activist based in Southern California. Born in Beirut, she fled the Lebanese Civil War with her family as a child and later earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. A dedicated arts advocate, she taught English for 20 years and worked with programs like Poetry Out Loud and the Anaphora Writing Residency. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection All That Wasted Fruit (2018), which examines themes of the sacred feminine, ambiguity, and identity, and her work has been widely published in prominent literary journals.
