rita taryan, writer

Rita Taryan was born in Budapest and grew up in Toronto. She has worked as a puppeteer, a security guard, a disc jockey, a tool and die worker, and a translator of articles and letters. Currently, she writes and teaches in Brooklyn, New York.

Rita’s stories have appeared in Apofenie, Bending Genres, Hobart, Matter Press, Lotus-Eater Magazine, Panel Magazine, Expat Press, Bull, Sortes, Jewish Fiction, and elsewhere.

Rita is famous for taking a brave philosophical stance against the following lyric from a famous Hungarian children’s song: If you don’t march in line, you won’t get any strudel.

“You will get strudel!” she insists.