Perla Kantarjian standing on a sunlit street in Beirut
Photograph by Vanessa Daou

Perla
Kantarjian

Perla Kantarjian is a Lebanese-Armenian writer from Beirut. Her debut poetry collection, You Must Become Field, is published by Bad Betty Press.

She won the 2026 William Saroyan Short Story Prize. Her writing appears in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Wasafiri and elsewhere.