Christine Vartoughian is an award-winning Armenian-American writer and film director. Her work has shown at Lincoln Center, the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), and her feature film about love and suicide, Living with the Dead: A Love Story, received the Audience Choice Award at Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Best Feature Film at Aberdeen Festival in the U.K., and is available on iTunes and Amazon in the U.S. and internationally. Christine is the co-founder of (Screen)Play Press, a publishing company for yet-to-be-produced film scripts. Her feature script, Young Monsters, was published in August 2022 and her short fiction has been published in The Bookends Review, Quibble Lit, Open: A Journal of Arts and Letters, 805, and Audience Askew literary magazine. She lives in New York City. Instagram @christinewritesaboutyou