Ariel Djanikian is a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan’s MFA pro­gram in cre­ative writ­ing. She is the recip­i­ent of a Ful­bright schol­ar­ship to study in the Yukon Ter­ri­to­ry, and cur­rent­ly lives and teach­es in the Philadel­phia area.