Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, the Presidential Medal, and the Movses Khoranatsi medal from Armenia, and the Spendlove Prize for Social Justice, Tolerance, and Diplomacy. Personal life Balakian was married to Helen Kebabian, director of government, foundation, and corporate relations at Colgate University. Balakian's daughter, Sophia, is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at George Mason University and is married to the fiction writer Michael Don, author of the story collection Partners and Strangers. Balakian's son, James, is a senior consultant for Deloitte in the Government and Public Services Division in Washington DC. Balakian is the nephew of former New York Times Book Review editor Nona Balakian (1918-1991), literary scholar Anna Balakian (1915-1997), and great-great nephew of Grigoris Balakian (1878-1934), memoirist and nonfiction writer and Bishop in the Armenian Apostolic Church. Works Poetry Father Fisheye (1979) , Sad Days of Light (1983) , Reply From Wilderness Island (1988) Dyer's Thistle (1996) , June-Tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974–2000 (2001) Ziggurat (2010) , Ozone Journal (2015) No Sign (2022) Prose Theodore Roethke's Far Fields (1989) , Black Dog of Fate, A Memoir (1997) (translated into Armenian by Artem Harutyunyan, 2002) , The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (2003) Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture (2015) Translation Bloody News From My Friend, by Siamanto, translated by Peter Balakian and Nevart Yaghlian, introduction by Balakian (1996) Armenian Golgotha, by Grigoris Balakian, translated by Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag (2009) Editor Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, preface by Robert Jay Lifton, introduction by Roger Smith, afterword by Henry Morgenthau III. (2003) A Slant of Light; Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft, edited by Peter Balakian and Bruce Smith, Bucknell University Press (2018) Limited Editions Declaring Generations, linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor ( 1981) Invisible Estate, woodcuts by Rosalyn Richards (1985) The Oriental Rug, linoleum engravings by Barnard Taylor (1986) The Children's Museum at Yad Vashem, illustrated by Colleen Shannon (1996) (all from The Press of Appletree Alley, Lewisburg, PA) Recordings Poetry on Record, 1888–2006: 98 Poets Read their Work (Tennyson, Whitman, Yeats, through Modernism to present). Four-CD set. Balakian reading "The History of Armenia" References External links Interview transcript & audio of Balakian reading his poems: Cortland Review, March 2001 Biography at HarperCollins What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Presentation of Lemkin Award to Peter Balakian to Feature Rare Film of Raphael Lemkin, The