R. H. Lola Koundakjian

Lola Koundakjian (www.lolakoundakjian.com) is an Armenian poet, editor and translator living in New York City since 1979. She runs the Dead Armenian Poetry Society and curates and produces poems and audio for the online Armenian Poetry Project. Lola’s translations from Western Armenian to English are in Ararat Quarterly, Rattapallax, Poetry International at SDSU, with more scheduled in Wassafiri in 2024.

Since 2010, Lola has read her work at six international poetry festivals. In 2021 her third book -- The Moon in the Cusp on my Hand -- won the Minas and Kohar Tololyan Prize in Contemporary Literature. Lola serves on the board of the International Armenian Literary Alliance.