# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seta-melkonian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:20:04.840Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seta-melkonian"
name: "Seta Melkonian"
slug: "seta-melkonian"
description: "Seta Kabranian-Melkonian is an Armenian-American writer and refugee rights activist. Born in Lebanon, Kabranian moved to Yerevan to study Armenian literature. She met and married Monte Melkonian, who died fighting in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. She established a non-governmental organization in his name, to provide aid to families of Armenian soldiers and refugees. She later moved to Alaska, where she studied creative nonfiction, contributed to research on refugees and worked as a faculty member of the University of Alaska Anchorage."
tagline: "Armenian-American writer (b. 1963)"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1963-06-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.9
  momentum:             22.52358490566038
  historical:           3.760081333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seta_Kabranian-Melkonian"
    title: "Seta Kabranian-Melkonian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سدا برانیان-ملکنیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%A1_%D4%B3%D5%BA%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6-%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%AC%D6%84%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Սեդա Գպրանյան-Մելքոնյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سیٹا کبرانیان-میلکونیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102310792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations