He was the editor of Ararat magazine, and the founding editor of Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic- American Literature, as well as Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal For Our Time. In the fall of 2012 he will receive The Armenian Star Award. He was also awarded The Friends of American Writers Award for his novel, Beyond Two Rivers, and for lifetime achievement the 1994 Notable Wisconsin Authors Award, and in 2008 the Emily Lee Award, that was presented together with a Legislative Citation from the Wisconsin State Assembly. His numerous awards for The Road From Home: The Story Of An Armenian Girl, include a Newbery Honor Book Award, the Jane Addams Award, the Boston Globe / Horn Book Award, The Banta Award, The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and a nomination for The American Book Award. His Retelling Of Monkey: A Journey To The West (Shambhala, 1992), the most popular classic of Asian literature, was selected by the Quality Paperback Division of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and was also purchased for television. He has published nine contemporary American poetry anthologies, including Beat Voices (Henry Holt, 1995), and two seminal works: Down At The Santa Fe Depot: 20 Fresno Poets (The Giligia Press, 1970), that inspired a series of city and state anthologies, and Settling America: The Ethnic Expression Of 14 Contemporary American Poets (Macmillan, 1974), one of the first multi-ethnic anthologies published in this country. He is the author and editor of over seventy books, that include poetry, novels, memoirs, biographies, bibliographies, children’s books, as well as critical studies, translations, and retellings. David Kherdian was born in Racine, Wisconsin.

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