Naira Kuzmich was born in Armenia and raised in the Los Angeles enclave of Little Armenia. Her nonfiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Ecotone, the Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, the Massachusetts Review, Guernica, the Southern Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. Naira passed away from lung cancer in 2017, at the age of twenty-nine.
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