Role: Author

Mr. Janjigian was honored to be a guest speaker/reader at the Jack Kerouac: Writers of the Next Generation event in 2007. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and teaches English at Harvard University Extension and Northeastern University.

Keri Topouzian was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 25, 1956, and then at 13, moved with his family to Birmingham, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1982. Dr. Topouzian’s mother, a journalist, was born and raised in Detroit while his father, a mechanical engineer, was born in Utica, New York. His grand parents hailed from four different villages in Ancient Armenia (now part of Turkey), each immigrating separately to the United States.\