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Atina Hartunian Atina Hartunian, a first-generation Armenian-American writer, earned her MFA from Pacific University in 2023. She received a Teaching Fellowship from Anaphora Arts (2024), a Pacific University MFA Merit Scholarship (2021), and residencies from Cambridge Writers’ Workshop.
She has led generative workshops using sensory-driven prompts and craft constraints and has given craft talks on aspects of the horror genre. Currently, she’s developing a four-part Horror Lecture Series. She has also written two chapbooks, with her third, Love at First Sip, set to release in Spring 2025.
Atina Hartunian writes literary cartoons—not the kind you’d find in The New Yorker. Her stories are more like animated cartoons, which makes sense when you grow up watching She-Ra and The Simpsons. Just read her work, and you’ll see. She is a native Los Angel-ian.
Atina Hartunian is also the behind-the-scenes ninja at Mher Vahakn Imagery— a Los Angeles Based Photography studio specializing in Professional Portraits, Product Photography, and Family Portraits.
From organizing timelines, editing images, and creating marketing strategies, she manages the studio and everything else that is not photo related.
Her absolute favorite part of what she does is working beside her husband.