Author Archives: Sarah Ignatius

I’m honored to be one of the International Armenian Literary Alliance’s 2023 Mentees and thrilled to have the brilliant insights and creative suggestions from my mentor, the talented author and artist Dana Walrath. I hope to give back to aspiring … Continue reading →

My mother was first diagnosed with cancer at age 48, in 1973. Deep inside, she must have felt the death sentence, always a possibility, for the rest of her life, but she pushed that thought away. In the dark of … Continue reading →

Within two hours of landing in Shanghai after flying for over 20 hours from Boston this summer, I was weaving through traffic on a yellow rental bike, following my son along Shanghai’s narrow streets. Moments before, when he had selected … Continue reading →

“Be sure to go to the Anne Frank House.” That was one of my writing partners when I told her I was heading to Amsterdam.  “Also, look for the bench where Hazel and Augustus sat by the canal in The … Continue reading →

At the Genocide Memorial in Armenia, I knelt and placed my red carnation at the edge of the eternal flame and stood silently with throngs of people who had come from all over the world at the end of May … Continue reading →