Creative Capital Award (2025) for “Portals” Film Anthology and Installation
GRRL HAUS Cinema Juror Film Award (2024) for “Symptom” Short Film
IBC [Inclusive Books for Children] Shortlist (2024) for “The Brighter I Shine” Children’s Book
Honourable Mention for Best Experimental Film at Pomegranate Film Festival (2024) for “Ensouled” Short Film
Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Queer Motherhood is Speculative Fiction” Mizna Magazine 21.1
Best Actress Nominee (2020) Festival of the Moving Image for “Susanna” short film
Lammy Finalist for LGBTQ Anthology (2019) for “Dear Armen” in Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts
New Play Prize (2017) for “Setting Bones” Playwrights Theatre & Vancouver Fringe Festival

“Artist Feature,” Artscene, 05/06/2025
“Creative Capital Announces 2025 Awards,” ARTFORUM, 01/22/2025
“Congratulations Creative Capital Awardees,” New York Times, 01/26/2025
Torosyan, “Film Review: Ensouled,” TorontoHye, 02/2023
M. Hakopian & P. Kim, “Monuments Under Occupation,” Art Papers, 2021
Miranda, “Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. LA artists make their own to keep memory alive,” LA Times, 12/2020
Yesayan, “The New Generation is the Guardian of Our Lands,” Asbarez, 11/2020
S. Gayen, “Oksana Mirzoyan Retells And Makes A Work Of Art With ‘Susanna’” Indie Shorts Mag, 03/2019
Bell, “Vancouver Fringe Festival Reviews: 2017 Edition,” Room Magazine, 09/2017
Chakmakchi, “Dear Armen,” ReOrient Mag, 1/27/2016
Kleinfeld, “Acclaimed experimental play ‘Dear Armen’” The Daily Californian, 10/12/2015
Edevane, “Exploring Identity Through Armenian Tales,” East Bay Express, 10/7/2015

DocX Fellowship & Lab | Center for Documentary Studies (Duke University, 2024)
The Orchard Project Audio Lab (2024) for development of Taking up Arms podcast
Drake Devonshire x County Arts Residency (2024)
County Labs Residency (2023) for development of Ensouled
VONA Genre Bending Literary Fitness Writing Workshop (2021)  with Shay Youngblood
Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (2021) Spring Writers Retreat
Spruceton Artist Residency (2019) for development of Ensouled
Creative Facilitation Training (2014): Partners for Youth Empowerment – PYE Global

“DocX Diaries: Reflections From Emily Mkrtichian and Kamee Abrahamian,” Duke Center for Documentary Studies (2025).
“Flesh, Immemorial“ My Kali Magazine (2024)
“The Brighter I Shine“ Lantana Publishing (2024).
“Let’s Sit Crooked and Talk Straight: Tasseography as a Portal for Aching Hearts,” in Al Hayya Magazine, (Issue 3, 2024).
“Monument to the Autonomous Republic of Artsakh” Shaping the Past, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (2024).
“Museum of Forgotten Belongings,” in Armenian Creatives 02: A Question Makes a Room for Collaboration (2023).
“Ensouled,” in Visions; Pacifica Graduate Institute, (2023).
“Gisher in Western Armenian” in Those words, that offer to us; Issue 01: Poetry + Literature (2023).
“Architecture for Future Living Spaces,” in Armenian Creatives 01: Transcription the Space before Translation (2021).
“Motherhood is Speculative (Non)Fiction,” in The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary, Demeter Press, (2021).
“Queer Motherhood is Speculative Fiction,” Mizna Magazine 21.1  Queer & Trans Voices Issue (Nov 2020) – Pushcart Prize Nomination
“Never Not Powerful,” Spicy Zine (April 2020).
“5 QPOC Visionary Fiction Projects to Look Out for in the Not-So-Distant Future,” Autostraddle (March 2020).
“Myrtle / A Mother’s Mind,” BTWN | The Between Journal (issue: 2019).
“Flare 2019: Transmission by A. Yahjian, E. Mkritichian, K. Abrahamian & l. boudakian,” Rianne Pictures (March 2019).
“Excerpt from a Work-in-Progress: Motherhood is Speculative (Non)Fiction: A Rhizomatic Writing Experiment Examining Motherhood and Matrescence,” The Community Psychologist; Volume 52, Number 2, Spring 2019.
“Coffee No. 1” No, Dear Magazine (cover art), guest edited by Alina Gregorian (2018).
“Dear Armen” Q2Q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts, edited by Dickinson, Gatchalian, Oliver & Singh (2018) – Lammy Finalist for LGBTQ Anthology
“Herstories of Divine Love,” The Armenian Review; Volume 56, Number 1-2 (Spring–Summer 2018).
“when you left us in armenia / 2011,” BTWN | The Between Journal (issue: 2016).
“Dear Armen,” Ardziv Magazine, (issue: December 2014)

SELF PUBLISHED BOOKS & ANTHOLOGIES

“Interrupture” (2025) co-creator with Emily Sanders
“Pouys” (2022) co-creator @entangledrootspress & Armmad, illustrated book on Armenian plant healing knowledge.
“Ancient Fires, Future Waters” (2022) co-creator @entangledrootspress, illustrated book on reclaiming ancient Armenian rituals.
“Proverbs from our Foremother” (2019) co-creator @anahitoferebuni, illustrated quote book on Armenian women.
“DYADS” (2016) Project Manager, Curator, collaborative arts & storytelling project gathering SWANA women & queers.

“The “Witch” in Relationality with the More-Than-Human: Mutually Shaping Experiences,” The Witch Institute Conference; Queens University (August 2021).
“Towards an Armenian Futurism,” 2021 Dumanian Lecture Series (May 2021).
“Resistance, rematriation, and diasporic futurity,” Panel talk at the Feminist Art Conference; OCAD (March 2020).
“Stitching Stories: a ceremony of cross-cultural psycho-narrative restoration,” Presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action; University of Ottawa (June 2017).
“Development of Racial Justice Values for the Classroom,” Presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action; University of Ottawa (June 2017).
“Kim Kardashian: The Dark Horse of Armenian Society,” Paper presented at After Genocide: From Trauma to Rebirth: A Gendered Perspective; Organized by Women in War (Paris) with the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan (September 2016).
“Narratives and Sense of Community amongst Syrian-Armenian Newcomers in Toronto,” Paper presented at Global Histories of Refugees Conference; University of Melbourne (October 2016).

Pacifica Graduate Institute (2022): MA/Ph.D. in Depth Psychology: community, liberation, indigenous & eco psychologies.
Ph.D. Dissertation: ՀՈԳ ՏԱՆԻԼ AS BRINGING SPIRIT: Legacies of relational ontologies & ethics of care by diasporic SWANA women & queer folks
European Graduate School (2013): MA in Expressive Arts Therapy: focus on digital media & education.
Concordia University (2009): BA/BFA: double major in film studies and political science.