BEATRIZ BADIKIAN

Beatriz Badikian was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived in Chicago since 1970. In 1994 Badikian earned her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago , where she specialized in poetry and multiethnic literature. Since 1994 Badikian has been a faculty member at Roosevelt University where she teaches Literature, Writing and Women's studies. In 1998 Roosevelt University's English department launched their M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Badikian participated in its organizing and curriculum development and now teaches poetry and fiction writing as well. She has always been a popular performer around the Chicago poetry circuit of galleries, bookstores, libraries, universities, and community centers.

She co-edited Naming the Daytime Moon, an anthology of Chicago woman writers and is a contributor to the mini-anthology Emergency Tacos by MARCH/Abrazo Press.

Her poetry has been published in numerous journals including: Third Woman, The American Review, Spoon River Quarterly, Hammers, Emergency Tacos, Pleiades, Lucky Star, Ruptures, Imagine, Shards of Light, Tonantzin, Haymarket, Ecos, The Beast in a Cage of Words, Iowa Woman International Issue, The Poetry Connection, and La Raza. She has also published numerous articles, short stories, reviews and essays in publications which vary from local newspapers to The Journal of American Culture.

She has written a fictional account of her families travels from Greece to Argentina and eventually to the US, called Old Gloves.

Her works include:

Akewa is a Woman, (MARCH/Abrazo Press),
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Mapmaker Revisited, (Gladsome Books), 1999
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With other editors: Naming The Daytime Noon, 1987
Badikian, Beatriz, Old Gloves, (Fractal Edge Press), 2005
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