Armineh sent her first children's story anonymously to Noor Jahan Presbyterian Magazine at the age of fifteen in Tehran. She impatiently waited for a whole month to see her story printed in the center page of the Noor Jahan Magazine. Armineh continued sending in more stories for a year, by merely signing her initials, before she was discovered and her stories published in a hardcover book. "The Talking Animals" has been used to help the fourth graders at East Quogue Elementary School in N.Y. with the analysis of folk tales for their State Language, Art and Reading test. Armineh has a novel...

Armineh Ohanian published the first edition of The Talking Animals in 2003. The same year she was invited to participate in a reading and book signing event at the SCOPE annual Long Island Family Reading Fun Festival. Her name appears in the BOCES Arts and Education catalogue for visiting authors and artists of Suffolk County schools. Armineh is also the author of Dreaming of America. She lives in Westhampton, NY with her husband and her three "talking cats." The story is about the life and adventures of a black-and-white tuxedo cat called Magic, who is left behind when her family moves to a...