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Marianne Markarian is a second generation Armenian-American who lives in California where she works as a freelance writer. Much of her writing interests focus on her grandparents' survival of the Armenian Genocide. \

MARI FIRKATIAN is a professor of history at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. She teaches Western Civilization and Global History. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow as well as a Yale University Fellow. She has lived and traveled extensively in Southeast Europe and the Soviet Union. With a formal background in linguistics and history, Firkatian’s research interests include minority populations, diplomatic history and intellectual history. 

Marcella Polain is a lecturer in the writing program at Edith Cowan University. She was a founding editor for the national poetry journal Blue Dog, has been poetry editor for Westerly, and was inaugural editor for the journal Indigo. Her first poetry collection, Dumbstruck, won the Anne Elder Prize; her second, Each Clear Night, was short-listed for the West Australian Premier’s Poetry Prize.