Tatev Chakhian is an Armenian poet, born in 1992 in Yerevan, currently lives in Poland.
After several years of collaborative poetry projects, in 2016 she has published her first volume of poetry titled “unIDentical”. The book has been nominated for the 2018 European Poet of Freedom – the 5th edition of the Literary Award of the City of Gdansk and has been published in Polish.
Selections of her poetry have been translated into numerous languages and have been published in international anthologies in Germany, Austria, Poland, Iran, Russia, Canada, Lebanon, etc.
Chakhian’s artistic activities are being crossed to poetry in form of mixed-media art, she collaborates with urban artists, filmmakers, musicians and herself makes collages based on poetry.
Being graduated from the faculty of Cultural Anthropology at Yerevan State University, her academic interest is the urban semiotics, “reading” the cities as text.