Lola Koundakjian, poet, editor and translator, is the curator of the Armenian Poetry Project, which she launched in 2006. Her first collection of poetry is The Accidental Observer; her second, the illustrated Advice to a Poet was a finalist in the Orange Book prize in Armenia; her third collection, The Moon in the Cusp of my Hand, published in 2020, won the Minas and Kohar Tololyan Prize in Contemporary Literature in 2021.