Jack Chavoor

A recent graduate of the MFA program at Fresno State, Jack Chavoor is a retired high school English teacher. Originally from Burbank, California, he now lives in Fresno. He and his wife Grace have three children and four grandchildren. His thesis Ghosts of the Genocide was nominated for 2020 Best Creative Nonfiction Thesis at Fresno State; it explores the complexities of what it means to be Armenian, Assyrian and American. Selections from the thesis have appeared in the 2020 edition Pacific Journal, Volume 15, an annual journal published by Fresno Pacific College, and in the October 2020 edition of Hyebred Magazine, an online literary magazine featuring writers of Armenian descent.