Lilit Karapetyan was born in 1990. She has a Master’s degree in art history from Yerevan State University. Her work has been published in several literary magazines. She has translated literary works from English, Russian and Farsi. In 2011 she was awarded the Presidential Youth Prize in Armenia. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Between the Asphalt and the Sky (2009) and Monologue in Two Voices (2013), and a novel, The Auger of Desert (2021).