About Me

Alis Cerrahyan never set out to be celebrated. She set out to be honest.

And somehow, that honesty turned into impact.

With The Sound of an Ordinary Life, Cerrahyan cracked open her heart and handed readers the pieces—not to fix, but to understand. Her writing doesn’t ask for sympathy; it offers solidarity. It doesn’t beg for attention; it calls for awakening.

A recipient of over a dozen international honours—including the Atlas of Stories Book Award, Global Spines Book Award, and Narrative Voyager Award—Cerrahyan is more than a decorated author. She’s a truth-teller. A soul-stitched seeker of meaning. A woman who believes that even the smallest voice can carry the weight of transformation.

She writes not from a pedestal, but from the trenches.
Not as a hero, but as a fellow traveller.
Not with perfection, but with purpose.

Her hope? That you’ll read her story and begin to write your own—not as a victim of circumstance, but as the Monarch you were always meant to be.