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""A spellbinding weave of intrigue, history, and culture Mountains on Fire brings the rich and complex world of Armenia to life, illuminating how it's troubled past throws long shadows into the present. With a vision both unflinching and compassionate, Yardumian writes of the war-torn territories not only of Armenia, but also of the human heart-places prone to chronic hauntings. Yardumian is a formidable storyteller whose keen and magical imagination and narrative energy blends the surreal and fabulist worlds of Gabriel García Márquez and Anton Chekhov's sharp bursts of astonishing insight."" --Gina Oschner, author of The Necessary Grace to Fall, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award in 2001, and the The Russian Dream Book of Color and Flight ""Mountains on Fire is a cultural landscape of Armenia's conflicts and history, told through the sharp lens of mystery and exploration. Yardumian illuminates the nuances of Armenia's complicated past in wars and strife, leading the reader through a haunting telling where truths are uncovered with humanity and understanding. This is not just a story, but a dark and beautiful tapestry, Yardumian's language weaving the past with the present, bringing in characters with realism, yet an elusive charm. 'It's peace to where I go, I can feel it.'"" - Aida Zilelian, author of All the Ways We Lied and The Legacy of Lost Things, recipient of the 2014 Tololyan Literary Award ""Armed with poetic prose, Aram Yardumian's debut explores how war and its aftermath lingers, lurks, and haunts. Rooted in the Armenian experience, Yardumian gracefully gestures to universal complexities: that the unresolved is our only certainty, that the question is the answer."" --Raffi Joe Wartanian, inaugural poet laureate of Glendale, CA

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Aram Yardumian is a field anthropologist who works in the Caucasus and Caribbean. His other books include Listen (Errant Bodies, 2022), Persepolis (Bloomsbury, 2023), and The Peopling of the Caucasus (Cambridge UP, 2025). Luke Kruger-Howard is an Ignatz nominated cartoonist living life in the Pacific Northwest raising two human children full-time. His work has popped up in numerous places - stuff like The New Yorker, The Nib, Slate, Best American Comics, the AV Club, Buzzfeed and the like. Some of his comics include Talk Dirty To Me (AdHouse Books) and Our Mother (Retrofit/Big Planet Comics). He has been spending his free time dreaming up new ways that artists might separate their art practices from capitalism. David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of El Martillo Press. Romero is the author of My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press, 2020) and Diamond Bars 2 (Moon Tide Press, 2024). Romero has received honorariums from nearly a hundred colleges and universities in thirty-four different states in the USA and has also performed live in Mexico, Italy, and France. His poem, ""You Were Born a Tree"" was sent to the moon by NASA in 2025 as part of the Lunar Codex. Romero's work has been published in literary magazines in the United States, Mexico, England, Scotland, Canada, and Hungary. Romero has opened for Latin Grammy winning bands Ozomatli and La Santa Cecilia. Romero's work has been published in anthologies alongside poets laureate Joy Harjo, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Luis J. Rodriguez, Jack Hirschman, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. Romero has won the Uptown Slam at the historic Green Mill in Chicago; the birthplace of slam poetry. Romero's poetry deals with family, identity, social justice issues, and Latine culture.

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