Goshgarian is an assistant professor of English at Northeastern University in Boston.
"Braver" is a translation of the name of Goshgarian's paternal grandfather (Garabed Markarian).
[citation needed] Several of his novels have a biomedical slant including Elixir, Gray Matter, and Flashback, which won the Massachusetts Honor Book Award for Fiction in 2006.
[3][better source needed] Other novels have archaeological themes, including Atlantis Fire and The Stone Circle.
His book Choose Me, a murder mystery co-authored with Tess Gerritsen, was published in July 2021.