Aida Zilelian is NYC-based first generation American-Armenian writer, educator and storyteller. She is the author of THE LEGACY OF LOST THINGS (2015) and ALL THE WAYS WE LIED (2024). Her work has appeared in Phoebe, Ekphrastic Review, Red Hen Press (anthology of immigrant writing) and others. Her poem "The Escape Artist" was a finalist in the Sand Hills Literary Review poetry contest and is forthcoming in print in the fall. She recently completed her short story collection WHERE THERE CAN BE NO BREATH AT ALL and DISSONANCE her poetry chapbook.