Nicole Haroutunian is the author of Choose This Now (Noemi Press, forthcoming March 2024) and the short story collection, Speed Dreaming (Little a, 2015). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Tupelo Quarterly, the Bennington Review, Joyland, Post Road, Pigeon Pages, Tin House’s Open Bar, and elsewhere. She hosts and programs the reading series “Story Time” for Caregivers at the Astoria Bookshop. As an editor of Underwater New York, she co-curated the literary work for a book by Elizabeth Albert entitled Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront (Damiani Editore 2016). With Apryl Lee, Nicole co-founded Halfway There, a reading series in Montclair, NJ. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

As a freelance writer, Nicole has written sleep stories Audible and podcast episodes for Rebel Girls.

She is Senior Museum Educator at the American Folk Art Museum and educator at the Noguchi Museum.

She lives with her husband, Dan Selzer, and daughter, Opal Judith, in Woodside, Queens.

instagram: @nicoleharoutunianwriter

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Nicole Haroutunian is the author of the novel-in-stories CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press, 2024), named one of the best story collections of the year by Electric Literature, and the story collection SPEED DREAMING (Little a, 2015). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Story, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She hosts and programs the reading series "Story Time" for Caregivers at the Astoria Bookshop, works in museum education, and lives with her family in Woodside, Queens in New York City.