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Atina Hartunian is a writer, independent scholar, educator, and first-generation Armenian American based in Los Angeles. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in 2023. Her honors include a Teaching Fellowship from Anaphora Arts (2024), the Pacific University MFA Merit Scholarship (2021), and residencies with the Cambridge Writers' Workshop, Rockvale Writers' Colony (2025), and the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency (2026).

Atina's work explores horror, perception, memory, diasporic identity, and the unseen through fiction, flash nonfiction, and craft scholarship. Her chapbook Love at First Sip was shortlisted for the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Awards (2025), and her flash piece I'd Rather Lose My Tits Than My Hair received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Plentitudes Flash Fiction Prize.

She is currently developing a five-part Horror Lecture Series that combines literary criticism, close reading, and generative writing. Her talks have been presented through ThunderDome Conference, The Writer's Center, CALYX Press, Anaphora Arts, and Portland Community College. Most recently, she has been invited to present upcoming workshops and lectures through Blue Stoop Classes, StoryStudio Chicago and, Beyond Baroque and Morbid Anatomy where she continues to explore how horror, haunting, nostalgia, and perception shape the stories we tell.

In addition to her creative work, Hartunian develops constraint-based prompts and workshops that encourage experimentation, curiosity, and play for writers of all experience levels. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of PACT DeskSet Substack, an independent literary arts community dedicated to craft, conversation, and creative experimentation.

Atina lives and writes in Los Angeles.