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Biography:
David Kherdian is an internationally known poet, novelist, and memorist, whose work has been published in 13 languages around the world. Born in Racine, WI, he has published thirteen volumes in his acclaimed Root River Cycle, consisting of poetry, memoirs, novels and novellas.
His biography of his mother, The Road From Home, the sole survivor of her family of the Armenian Genocide, has been published around the world and has been in print for over 30 years.
As an editor he has published several seminal works that include Down at the Santa Fe Depot: 20 Fresno Poets, that resulted in numerous city, state, and regional anthologies, and an explosion of small presses around the country. His anthology Settling America: The Ethnic Expression of 14 Contemporary American Poets, was the first truly multi-ethnic anthology in America, as was his journal Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature. In all he has edited nine literary anthologies, and over the course of 40 years he has edited three journals: Ararat, Forkroads, and Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time, while founding three small presses: The Giligia Press, Two Rivers Press, and The Press at Butternut Creek.
His wife, children's book illustrator Nonny Hogrogian, was the art director for each of the journals, as well as the small presses, where their books with two of the three presses were handset, hand printed, and handbound in limited editions.
His honors, prizes and awards include The Boston Globe / Horn Book Award, Newbery Honor Book Award, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, Jane Adams Peace Award, Banta Award, and a nomination for the American Book Award, and the 1994 Notable Wisconsin Authors Award, for lifetime achievement.
Works by David Kherdian:
David Kherdian is an internationally known poet, novelist, and memorist, whose work has been published in 13 languages around the world. Born in Racine, WI, he has published thirteen volumes in his acclaimed Root River Cycle, consisting of poetry, memoirs, novels and novellas.
His biography of his mother, The Road From Home, the sole survivor of her family of the Armenian Genocide, has been published around the world and has been in print for over 30 years.
As an editor he has published several seminal works that include Down at the Santa Fe Depot: 20 Fresno Poets, that resulted in numerous city, state, and regional anthologies, and an explosion of small presses around the country. His anthology Settling America: The Ethnic Expression of 14 Contemporary American Poets, was the first truly multi-ethnic anthology in America, as was his journal Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature. In all he has edited nine literary anthologies, and over the course of 40 years he has edited three journals: Ararat, Forkroads, and Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time, while founding three small presses: The Giligia Press, Two Rivers Press, and The Press at Butternut Creek.
His wife, children's book illustrator Nonny Hogrogian, was the art director for each of the journals, as well as the small presses, where their books with two of the three presses were handset, hand printed, and handbound in limited editions.
His honors, prizes and awards include The Boston Globe / Horn Book Award, Newbery Honor Book Award, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, Jane Adams Peace Award, Banta Award, and a nomination for the American Book Award, and the 1994 Notable Wisconsin Authors Award, for lifetime achievement.
Works by David Kherdian:
- A Bibliography of William Saroyan, 1934–1964 (1964)
- Six Poets of the San Francisco Renaissance: portraits and checklists (1967)
- Visions of America (1973)
- Settling America: the ethnic expression of 14 contemporary poets (1974)
- Poems Here and Now (1976)
- Traveling America with Goday's Poets (1977)
- The Dog Writes on the Window with His Nose and other poems (1977)
- The Road from Home: the story of an Armenian girl (1979) – biography in some library catalogs, fiction in others
- Finding Home (1981) – continues The Road from Home
- Right Now (1983)
- The Animal (1984)
- Root River Run (1984)
- Bridger: the story of a mountain man (1987)
- A Song for Uncle Harry (1989)
- The Cat's Midsummer Jamboree (1990)
- Feathers and Tails: animal fables from around the world (1991)
- On a Spaceship with Beelzebub: by a grandson of Gurdjieff (1991)
- Lullaby for Emily (1995)
- Beat Voices: an anthology of beat poetry (1995)
- The Rose's Smile: Farizad of the Arabian Nights (1997)
- The Golden Bracelet (1997)
- I Called it Home (1997)
- The Neighborhood Years (2000)
- Come Back, Moon (2013)
