Aida Zilelian

Aida Zilelian is a New York writer and English teacher. She has been published in several anthologies and more than 25 literary journals, including Per Contra, Red Fez, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Theurgy. She has read her work at various reading series in Queens and Manhattan, including Sunday Salon, Phoenix Reading Series, Gartal, Rez Reading Series, Oh, Bernice!, and First Tuesdays. She is the curator of Boundless Tales, a reading series in Queens, N.Y. In 2011, her first novel The Hollowing Moon was one of four semi-finalists of the Anderbo Novel Contest. The Legacy of Lost Things is her first published novel and was the recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award. She is currently working on her third novel.