Lusine Kharatyan is a cultural anthropologist and fiction writer. Her writing is significantly influenced by her anthropological research and fieldwork. Lusine holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Minnesota, General Diploma in Demography from Cairo Demographic Center, and a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Yerevan State University. Her short story collection Dead End Forget-Me-Not, was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature 2021 and her latest novel A Syrian Affair was nominated from Armenia for the same prize in 2023. She is the Chair of our Women Writer’s Committee of PEN Center Armenia.