Beatriz Badikian-Gartler

Beatriz Badikian-Gartler was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has lived in the Chicago area for more than 40 years. She is the author of Unveiling the Mind (2014, Pandora lobo estepario Press), Mapmaker Revisited: New & Selected Poems (1999, Gladsome Books), and the novel Old Gloves: A 20th Century Saga (2005, Fractal Edge Press). Her essays, poems, and stories have been published in The New York Times travel section, Third Woman, Diàlogo, Blue Lake Review, After Hours, Make Magazine, Hammers, The Winfield Post, The Journal of Modern Poetry, Short Story, and other journals, anthologies, and newspapers. Her work has appeared in Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry (Third World Press, 2022). She is a performer in the Chicago area and lectures often on literature, women's issues, and art.

In 2000, Badikian was selected as one of the One-Hundred Women Who Make a Difference in Chicago by Today's Woman magazine. Badikian-Gartler holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University, Loyola University, Roosevelt University, the University of Illinois, Columbia College, and others. She is an Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar and a frequent Newberry Library instructor.