RESUME
NAME:
Helene Pilibosian
ADDRESS:
171 Maplewood St., Watertown, MA 02472-1324
Phone:
617-926-2602
E-mail: hsarkiss@comcast.net
Web site: http://home.comcast.net/~hsarkiss
BIRTHPLACE:
Boston , MA
SCHOOLS:
Watertown High School, 1951 graduate, honors
Katharine Gibbs School, 1952 certificate
Harvard University Extension, ADA (BA
equivalent) in humanities, 1960
WORKSHOP
AND COURSES:
Harvard University Extension School, Advanced Poetry, Gail
Mazur, 1996
Harvard Summer School, Modern Poetry, Paul Engle, 1954
Extension and Summer School, American Literature, Howard Mumford Jones
EMPLOYMENT:
Watertown Public Library, 1949-1951
Harvard University, Widener Library 1960-1961
The Armenian
Mirror-Spectator, editor 1964-66, 1975-80, contributor 1981-
Harvard University
Printing Office, proofreader, 1982-1989
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
Armenian Missionary Association of America
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Harvard Extension Alumni Association
Harvard Alumni Association
PUBLISHED
POEMS IN American literary journals including Half Tones to Jubilee,
North American Review, Louisiana Literature, The Hollins
Critic, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Weber: The Contemporary
West and many others.
Anthologies:
Arveste
II, 1962
Ararat: A Decade
of Armenian-American Writing, 1969
Armenian North-American Poets ( Canada ), 1974
Armenian-American Poets: A Bilingual Anthology, 1976
Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, 1981
Ararat, Twenty-five Years of Writing, 1985
Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian American Writers, 2007
PUBLISHER:
Established Ohan Press in 1983 as a private
family-run micropress
Carvings from an Heirloom: Oral History Poems by
Helene Pilibosian, 1983
They Called Me
Mustafa: Memoir of an Immigrant by Khachadoor and
Helene Pilibosian, 1992
From Kessab to Watertown: A
Modern Saga by H. H. Sarkissian, 1996
At Quarter Past Reality: New and Selected Poems by
Helene Pilibosian, 1998
They Called Me Mustafa: Memoir of an Immigrant by Khachadoor and Helene
Pilibosian, second edition, 1999
The Collected
Articles of H. H. Sarkissian, Printed in the Armenian Press 1935-1961 (in
Armenian), 2000
The Collected Works of Khachadoor Pilibosian, (in Armenian), 2002
Character or The Guide to Life (in Armenian) by Henry Varnum, 2003
History’s Twists:
The Armenians, poems by Helene Pilibosian, 2008
My Literary Profile: A Memoir by Helene Pilibosian, 2010
A New Orchid Myth by Helene Pilibosian,
2014
RECOGNITION:
The Magical Pine
Ring, Armenian-American Literature by Prof. Margaret Bedrosian
Armenian-American Literature by Prof. Lorne Shirinian
Memory Fragments
from the Armenian Genocide: A Mosaic of a Shared Heritage by Margaret DiCanio
In God’s Name:
Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century by Omer Bartov
and Phyllis Mack
Like One Family:
The Armenians of Syracuse by Arpena Mesrobian
Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature
President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug by Dr. Hagop Martin Deranian
Beyond White Gloves by Rose Doherty (Gibbs)
EDITOR:
Dust to Destiny by Naomi Topalian
People, Places and Moultonborough by Naomi Topalian
From Kessab to Watertown:
A Modern Saga by H. H. Sarkissian et al
They Called Me Mustafa:
Memoir of an Immigant by Khachadoor
and Helene Pilibosian
PRIZES:
Armenian Allied Arts
Association, first prize, 1974
Pteranodon
Award (NFSPS), 1980
Wind Literary
Journal Award (NFSPS), 1982
Writer's Digest,
First Prize, National Self-Published Book Awards, 1998
The Madison Review
finalist 1986
Half Tones to
Jubilee finalist 1990
The Sandhills Review finalist
NEW LETTERS finalist
1998
Appreciation for They
Called Me Mustafa at Boston State House
Writer’s Digest, Honorable
Mention for History’s Twists,
International Self-Published Book Awards, 2009
Lucidity Clarity
Contest, first place, 2012
New England Book
Festival 2012 – honorable mention for My Literary Profile: A Memoir
PUBLICITY
AND REVIEWS:
Newspapers and
Magazines: Ararat, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, Nor Or, Writer's Digest,
The Armenian Reporter, Raft (Cleveland State University), California
Courier, Watertown Tab, amazon.com, The Midwest Review, Journal of the
Society for Armenian Studies; Flyers; Barnes & Noble Distribution Center;
Borders listing; R. R. Bowker listings.
Baker & Taylor listings
Industry Services, NACS Inc.
listing
Thousands of Internet listings
Small Press Books in Print
Google
Yahoo
Publisher’s Directory, The Gale Group
Kirkus Reviews
CONTRACT
2003, They Called
Me Mustafa: Memoir of an Immigrant licensed to Alexander Street Press
for electronic database North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral
Histories.
READINGS:
1985, Tekeyan Cultural Association book launch
1994, St. James Women's Group and Armenian Memorial Church
Women's Group
on They Called Me Mustafa
1997, Review talk on From
Kessab to Watertown
1999, Watertown Library, April 28
Baikar Association, Armenian Independence Day,
September 19
Armenian Library and Museum, November 14
Beverly Public Library, December 5
2000, Poetry Workshop
of Harold Bond, February 12
Watertown Library (for The Larcom
Review), March 26
Watertown Senior Center, September 20
2007, National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research, October 18
2008, Watertown
Senior Center, April 10
2008, Poems for
Armenian Genocide video, April 15
2009, Talk on
Armenian Genocide, Armenian Memorial Church, May 3
2010, Watertown
Senior Center, November 17
2010, Watertown
Library, December 11
2011, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, August 11
2014, Harvard Extension School Innovation Symposium, Harvard University
PLANS:
Continue to submit poems to many competitions and magazines