Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning, Armenian-American writer and film director. Her work has shown at Lincoln Center, the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), and her feature film, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, is available on AppleTV and Amazon Prime. Her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, 805, and Audience Askew literary magazine. Her first collection of short stories, The Only Way Out Is Through the Window,  will be released in July 2025 from Rebel Satori Press.