small pieces

By Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi small pieces is a collaboration between novelist Micheline Aharonian Marcom and writer and visual artist Fowzia Karimi, pairing Marcom’s short stories (or “miniatures” as Marcom calls them) with watercolors done by Karimi. Micheline Aharonian Marcom is the author of seven novels, including a trilogy of books about the Armenian genocide and its aftermath in the 20th century. She has received fellowships and awards from the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the US Artists’ Foundation. Fowzia Karimi has a background in visual arts and biology. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, California. Her work explores the correspondence on the page between the written and visual arts. She is a recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards (2011). She is the author of Above Us the Milky Way (Deep Vellum, 2020). She lives in Denton, Texas.  Dalkey Archive Press (2023)