Anahid Nersessian

Anahid Nersessian - Keynote Scholar

Biography

Anahid Nersessian was born and raised in New York City. She is the author of three books—(Verso, 2022; U of Chicago P, 2021),  (Chicago, 2020), and  (Harvard UP, 2015)—and is currently writing a book called How to Have Sex in a Poem, under contract with FSG. The former poetry editor of Granta magazine, she is also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Her work has appeared in The New YorkerThe London Review of BooksNew Left Reviewn+1The Los Angeles Review of BooksThe Paris ReviewBidounPoetry MagazineMousse and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor in the Department of English at UCLA.