Tamar Marie Boyadjian is an internationally recognized, award-winning author, editor, translator, and medievalist. She is the translator of In the Waiting Room by Zabel Yesayan (2025) and Bogus Brilliants by Zabel Yesayan (2026) and the author of The City Lament: Jerusalem across the Medieval Mediterranean (2018). She holds a PhD from UC Los Angeles, USA. She currently teaches Western Armenian language courses at Stanford University, USA.