Kamee Abrahamian self-describes as as an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, writer, producer, performer, educator, creative strategist, community organizer, caregiver, queerdo, waitress, and witch. They grew up in suburban Toronto in an Armenian family displaced from their homeland. Abrahamian lives on the traditional territories of the Anishinabewaki, Huron-Wendat, and Haudenosaunee peoples, also known as Prince Edward County, Ontario. Abrahamian holds a BFA/BA in film and political science from Concordia University, an MA in expressive art therapy from the European Graduate Institute, and an MA/PhD in Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco Psychologies from the Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)
The Brighter I Shine
Illustrated by Lusine Ghukasyan.
Newbury, UK: Lantana Publishing, 2024.
PZ7.1.A243 B727 2024
Publisher’s Synopsis
Mama always tells me stories on my birthday. She tells me the story of how I arrived in this world. They say I first came to them in a quiet dream and that I was a gift from our ancestors.
For one Armenian child, birthdays are days for decorating the house with bunches of rose and mint and sumac, for eating beef dumplings with garlic yogurt, and for baking cakes with family and friends. But birthdays are also a time for telling stories―stories of ancestors and homelands, of births and new beginnings, and of the land their family now calls home. Because stories make up who we are; they are like rivers that lead into oceans, like seeds that fall from flowers, like pages of this book that come from trees. And the more stories that are told, the brighter this little child shines.