Nancy Agabian

Nancy Agabian is an American writer, activist, and teacher, a lecturer at New York University, Gallatin. She is of Armenian origin and her memoir about her childhood, Me as Her Again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter, won Lambda Literary's Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction.

Career Agabian is an Armenian-American writer, who studied at Columbia University's School of the Arts. In 2000, she published a collection of essays, poetry, and non-fiction pieces titled Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque). In 2008, she published a memoir, titled Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books). The memoir was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2009, was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize, In 2006, she received a Fulbright Fellowship as well as a Lambda Literary Fellowship in 2012, to write about Armenian identity and history. Agabian has written a novel, The Fear of Large and Small Nations (Nauset Press) about the Armenian diaspora, based on her research conducted during her Fulbright Fellowship, which was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She has also worked to promote and preserve Armenian writing in America.

Activism LGBTQ+ rights Agabian has spoken out against anti-LGBT Armenians protesting against the Glendale Unified School District, stating

Further, Agabian has warned against the stereotyping of Armenians as anti-LGBT,

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