Nyri A. Bakkalian, Ph.D. is an Armenian-American queer woman by birth and a military historian by training. She is proud to have called the American and Japanese northeasts her home. She has produced nonfiction, fiction, and photography content for more than a dozen publications, including two newspapers and five anthologies, as well as for Eisner Award-nominated author Magdalene Visaggio’s Kim & Kim. Most recently, she is a staff writer for Unseen Japan. What’s her secret, you ask? Garlic and Turkish coffee (but really mostly Turkish coffee).
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