Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian is the author of "Black Dog of Fate" (PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir) and "The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and American’s Response," winner of the Raphael Lemkin Prize and a New York Times Best Seller—both New York Times Notable Books; and 7 books of poems including the forthcoming "Ozone Journal" (University of Chicago Press) and the forthcoming "Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture" (University of Chicago Press). He is Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University.