ZaBell

Founder and Editor

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Ani Asatryan is an Armenian writer and editor working across literature, editorial research, and cross-disciplinary cultural production. Working from Yerevan, her practice examines questions of perception, language, memory, visibility, and contemporary systems of meaning through writing, long-form inquiry, audiovisual formats, and archival structures.
 

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Following her studies at the University of Sussex in England, Asatryan founded and developed ZaBell in Yerevan as an editorial-cultural inquiry platform operating through conversations, audiovisual documentation, multilingual circulation, and archival development.

Asatryan's work has appeared in Asymptote Journal, Words Without Borders, and Absinthe: World Literature in Translation. Her work has been taught at University of California, Berkeley, American University of Armenia, and University of Basel, and her texts are held in the collections of New York Public Library, Columbia University Libraries, and University of Michigan.