Kyria Abrahams

Kyria Abrahams (born 1974) is a writer who lives in New York City. Her memoir, tentatively titled I'M PERFECT, YOU'RE DoomEd, is scheduled to be published next year by Touchstone/Fireside, a division of Simon & Schuster. Her literary agent is Laurie Abkemeier.

Bio

Kyria was raised as a Jehovah's Witness in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Her memoir is a humorous recounting of stories from this upbringing through young adulthood.

Kyria spent several years as a performance poet and was a member of the 1997 Worcester Massachusetts slam team. The team was a fourth-place finalist at the National Poetry Slam in Middletown, CT.

While living in Boston, she performed extensively as a standup comic and sketch actress, especially at The Comedy Studio in Harvard Square. In 2000, she was a semi-finalist in the Comedy Central Laugh Riots competition in Boston. Kyria moved to New York in 2002 to pursue a career as a writer and performer.

From Publishers Weekly, March 12 2007:

Touchstone's Amanda Patten has preempted world English rights to standup comic and slam poet Kyria Abraham's I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales of a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing; Laurie Abkemeier at DeFiore And Co. made the sale. This comedic memoir will describe growing up as a proselytizing "Pioneer" of the Lord, from handing out Watchtower instead of candy on Halloween to calling for the fiery destruction of enemies, and the author's eventual dis-fellowship from the only life she ever knew.