Lory Bedikian’s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and her second book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, published September, 2024 from the University of Nebraska Press. 

Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards.  

Her work is published in Gulf Coast, Tin House, The Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, BOULEVARD, The Adroit Journal, Literary Matters, Orion, wildness, and was featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast. Her poem “The Mechanic,” is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration, KNOPF, 2020. Her poems appear in Massachusetts Review’s “Revisiting WOMAN: An Issue, 50 Years Later.” New work can be found in Pleiades, Ploughshares and New Ohio Review.

Bedikian’s manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund from which she has twice been awarded a grant, the first being in 2006. 

Bedikian earned a BA from UCLA, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, Poetry and an MFA from the University of Oregon. She teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

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Lory Bedikian’s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize and her second book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, published September, 2024 from the University of Nebraska Press. Several of Bedikian’s poems received the First Prize Award in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as part of the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards.  Her work is published in Tin House, The Los Angeles Review, Northwest Review, BOULEVARD, The Adroit Journal, Literary Matters, Orion, wildness, and was featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast. Her poem “The Mechanic,” is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration, KNOPF, 2020.  Bedikian’s manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. New work can be found in Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, and Massachusetts Review’s “Revisiting WOMAN: An Issue, 50 Years Later.” Bedikian earned an MFA from the University of Oregon. She teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

Lory Bedikian’s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize. Her second book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, published September, 2024 from the University of Nebraska Press. Bedikian’s poems received the Neruda Prize for Poetry in the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards.  She has been featured on Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetry Unbound podcast. Her work is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration, KNOPF, 2020.  Bedikian’s manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. New work appears in Massachusetts Review’s “Revisiting WOMAN,” Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares and Pleiades.

Lory Bedikian’s collection The Book of Lamenting won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her second book Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, published September, 2024 from the University of Nebraska Press. Bedikian’s poems received the Neruda Prize for Poetry in the 2022 Nimrod Literary Awards. Her work is included in the anthology Border Lines: Poems of Migration, KNOPF, 2020 and her manuscript-in-progress received a 2021 grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.