Role: Author

Peter Najarian is the author of three novels, Voyages (Pantheon, 1971), Wash Me on Home Again, Mama (Berkley Poets' Workshop & Press, 1978), and Daughters of Memory (City Minor, 1986). Peter Najarian grew up in Union City, New Jersey. He has been writing since he was a teenager and like lots of other writers he has worked at many different kinds of jobs in the meanwhile. He taught film study at several colleges in London, England, and he also taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and Wayne State University. At the moment he is working as a housepainter in Berkeley, California. His other books are Wash Me On Home, Mama (Berkeley Poets Press, 1978) and Storytime which has not yet found a publisher.

Sourian, educated at Harvard, is a novelist, critic, and professor of English at Bard College. He was television critic for The Nation from 1975 to 1980. The essay collection focuses on life in Bulgaria, television, book reviews, and Armenian matters, such as poems of an Archbishop, the Armenian Buffalo Bill, and Up on Musa Dagh.

Perch Zeytuntsyan was born on July 18, 1938, in Alexandria, Egypt. In 1948, he repatriated to Armenia. Zeytuntsyan graduated from the Pyatigorsk Institute of Foreign Languages in Russia. He went on to also graduate from the Advanced Courses for Screenwriters in Moscow. In 1956, his inaugural collection of works, His First Friend, was published. From 1966-68, Zeytuntsyan worked as a script editor at Armenfilm, and then from 1968-75 he was the chief editor at the Yerevan Studio of TV films. He served as secretary of the Writer's Union of Armenia from 1975-86 and from 1990-91 as the acting Minister of Culture in Armenia. Perch Zeytuntsyan is the author of many plays, some of which have been translated into different languages and staged in countries around the world.

Peter Balakian is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, winner of the Raphael Lemkin Prize and a New York Times best seller, as well as June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000. He is Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University.