About
Aram Mrjoian teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan, where he serves as the managing editor of Michigan Quarterly Review, and on the MFA faculty at the Rainier Writing Workshop. He is the previous editor-in-chief of The Rumpus and has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and a Creative Armenia-AGBU. His debut novel, Waterline, is out now with HarperVia (June 2025).
Aram has taught composition, literature, and creative writing courses at the University of Michigan, Pacific Lutheran University, and Florida State University, where he earned his PhD in creative writing. He has previously worked as an editor at the Chicago Review of Books, the Southeast Review, TriQuarterly, and the Southern Review of Books. He guest edited an environmental futures folio for PANK, which was cited as a notable special issue in Best American Essays 2022. His professional background includes work in content marketing, public relations, social media management, and advertising.
He is the editor of the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora published by the University of Texas Press (March 2023).
His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Runner’s World, Literary Hub, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. He holds an English degree from Michigan State University, a graduate-level publishing certification from the University of Denver, and an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University.
