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2009 Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Leader Natalie Bakopoulos
BIO FOR NATALIE BAKOPOULOS
Natalie Bakopoulos received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan, where she now teaches. She is completing her first novel, set in Athens, Greece, during the military dictatorship of 1967–1974. A portion of this novel-in-progress won an Avery and Jule Hopwood Award and a Platsis Prize for Work on the Greek Legacy, both administered through the University of Michigan. Her short fiction has recently appeared in Ninth Letter and Tin House and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She is a regular contributor to Fiction Writers Review (www.fictionwritersreview.com
**************************************************************** 2009 Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Special Guest Adrianne Kalfopoulou Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a writer and teacher. She is the author of a poetry collection, Wild Greens, a finalist for the Red Hen Press first book award, and a memoir Broken Greek, a finalist for a Best Books USA News award in the Women’s Life Writing category. Her second poetry collection, Passion Maps, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2010, and her chapbook, Cumulus will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She is the undergraduate programs director at Hellenic American University, where she teaches.
**************************************************************** 2008-2009 Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Workshop Instructor: STRATIS HAVIARAS
STRATIS HAVIARAS was born in Greece, where his first four books of poetry were published. He received an MFA degree in creative writing at Goddard College, and held a number of positions at Harvard University, including Curator of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Foundation and the Henry Weston Farnsworth Room, and (Founding) Editor of Harvard Review. His books in English include two collections of poems and two novels (When the Tree Sings (short-listed for the National Book Award and named an ALA Notable Book), and The Heroic Age). Both novels were published in many languages in translation. Until 1007 Stratis Haviaras taught at creative writing at Harvard, and since 2002 he teaches and coordinates the writing workshops of The National Book Centre in Athens, Greece. He has lectured or read from his works throughout the United States. He is a member of the American Authors League, PEN New England, the Societe Imaginaire (Europe), Phi Beta Kappa of Massachusetts at Harvard, the Signet Society (Harvard), Modern Greek Studies Association, and the Greek Authors Society. PUBLICATIONS 1-4. Four books of poetry in Greek, published in Athens between 1963 and 1972. 5. Crossing the River Twice, poetry, Cleveland State Univ. Press, 1976 6. The Poet’s Voice (Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath et al, 6 audiocasettes, with intro and comments, boxed, Harvard Univ. Press and Faber & Faber, 1978 7. When the Tree Sings, a novel, Simon & Schuster, 1979 (paper by Ballantine, 1980). Short-listed for the National Book Awards; received 5 film options; also published in England (Picador), and in seven other European languages. 8. The Heroic Age, a novel, Simon & Schuster, 1984 (paper by Penguin); also published in England by King Penguin, and in seven other European languages in translation. 9. The Telling (Πορφυρό και μαύρο νήμα in Greek translation), Kedros, fall 2007. 10. Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard (with Michael Milburn), 2 audiocassettes of readings by V.N., Poetry Room, Harvard, 1988. 11. Seamus Heaney at Harvard (with Michael Milburn), 2 audiocassettes of readings by S.H., Poetry Room, Harvard, 1990. 12. Millennial Afterlives, Prose Poems, Wells College Press, 2000 13. Translation of C.P. Cavafy, The Canon, Hermes, Athens, 2004. US edition to be published by Harvard Univ. Press, Fall, 2007 **************************************************************** July 2006, 2005 & 2004 Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Workshop Instructor: Nick Papandreou
Nick Papandreou is the author of “A Crowded Heart” (Picador, Penguin) which was short-listed for the Los Angeles First Fiction Award in 1999 and was a bestseller in its Greek incarnation. His most recent book is titled Andreas Papandreou: Life in the First Person and the Art of Political Narrative which looks at how politicians try to impose their narrative on the world. His most recent essay came out this fall (2004), in an anthology called The Genius of Language, (Pantheon). His second novel, “The Thief of Memory” is awaiting a publisher. He was won the Greek Science Fiction award for the year 2000. Short stories and essays of his have appeared in American and Canadian journals such as Antioch Review, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, AGNI, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Quarry, Wascana Review, The Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Indiana Review as well as in Greek literary journals such as LEXI, and Entefktirion. Born in Berkeley, California, he has spent much of his life in North America, but now lives in Greece where he writes for a living. Though his family has kept him close to a world of politics, passion has kept him close to the universe of literature.
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Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Workshop Instructor: Beatriz Badikian
Beatriz Badikian-Gartler earned her
doctorate in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago
and has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants in the language
arts. Recently, Badikian-Gartler has been a faculty member at
Chicago's Roosevelt University , the University of Illinois at Chicago
and the Newberry Library where she teaches literature, writing and
women's studies. Today she teaches at Northwestern University in
Evanston, and was recently named one of
100 Women Who Make a Difference by
Today's Chicago Woman magazine.
Known in Chicago as a dynamic speaker, Beatriz shares her work on the national poetry circuit and appears in galleries, bookstores, libraries and community centers through the country. She has lectured throughout the Midwest on poetry and literature, and has a deep interest in fiction, American literature of the twentieth century, multi-ethnic literatures of the United States, film theory and travel literature.
EDUCATION Professional affiliations include:
Modern Languages
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Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Workshop Instructor: June Gould
June S. Gould, Ph.D. Author: The Writer in All of Us: Improving your Writing through Childhood Memories, E.P. Dutton/ PlumeBooks, New York. Counting the Stones, a book of Holocaust Poetry, with Barbara Haber and Ruth Steinberg, Shadow Press, New Jersey. Numerous Poems and Short Stories as well as an acclaimed chapter on teaching the language arts in the text, Constructivism: Theories, Perspectives and Practice, C. Fosnot, (Ed.) Teacher’s College Press, Columbia University, New York. Workshop Leader and Keynote Speaker on Memoir Writing: The National Council of Jewish Women, New York City The International Women’s Writing Guild, New York City The Guild’s Big Apple New York Conference on Writing, New York City Scarsdale School System, Scarsdale, New York Columbia University Teachers of Excellence Tri-state Consortium, New York City Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York Bank Street College, New York City The National Writer’s Union, Wesport, Connecticut Private Fiction and Poetry Workshops in New York City and in Westport, CT. Readings for Counting the Stones: 92nd Street Y, New York City The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. The UJA Federation’s Shoah commemoration at Vassar College The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City, and many other centers, libraries and ecumenical houses of worship throughout the country. Book Club Leader: Contemporary Novels Couples Group, Scarsdale, New York Women’s Group, Rye, New York Women’s Group, Norwalk, Connecticut Couples Group, Stamford, Connecticut Writing Consultant K-12: For numerous school systems in the tri state area including Westport, CT, Scarsdale, New York, and New York City. Recent Awards: The Westchester Holocaust Center on behalf of my novel in progress, Outside a Train is Waiting. American Education Research Association for my written contributions in the field of writing. Advisory Board Member The National Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas. **************************************************************** July 2008 & 2005 Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Workshop Instructor: Connie May Fowler
Connie May Fowler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. Her most recent work, The Problem with Murmur Lee, has been published by Doubleday in January 2005. It has been chosen as Redbook’s premier book club selection. In 2002 she published When Katie Wakes, a memoir that explores her descent and escape from an abusive relationship. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels including Remembering Blue which was awarded the Chautauqua South Literary Award and Before Women had Wings, recipient of the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award from the League and American Pen Women. Three of her novels have been Dublin International Literary Award nominees. Ms. Fowler adapted Before Women had Wings for Oprah Winfrey. The result was an Emmy-winning film starring Ms. Winfrey and Ellen Barkin. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and is published worldwide. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The London Times, American Oxford, and elsewhere. In October Ms. Fowler performed in the Vagina Monologues alongside Jane Fonda and Rosie Perez in a production that raised over $100,000 for two charitable agencies that aid women and children in need. Miss Fowler is the Irving Bacheller Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College and is director of the college’s writing series, Winter with the Writers, A Festival of the Literary Arts. She is a Florida native. For more about Connie May Fowler’s published work go to: www.conniemayfowler.com. On the Rollins site click on the "director" cookie: www.rollins.edu/winterwiththewriters. http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?0385499817&view=print http://mostlyfiction.com/contemp/fowler.htm http://www.bookpage.com/0002bp/connie_may_fowler.html
**************************************************************** June 19th - June 29th 2004 Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Workshop Instructor: DOROTHY ALLISON
Dorothy Allison is the author of “Bastard Out of Carolina” (National Book award Finalist), “Cavedweller” (American Library Association Prize), “Two or Three Things I know for Sure” (NY Times Notable Book of the Year), and “Trash” (Selection in the Best American Short Stories Collection for 2003). She has crafted a body of work praised and prized for its compassionate, provocative, sometimes bruising commitment to truth. Born in small-town South Carolina to a fifteen-year-old unwed mother and a brutally abusive father, Dorothy Allison harnessed an intensely defiant spirit to overcome years of abuse and build a major literary career. Her reputation as a teacher and workshop leader is unparalleled, and her classes, when offered, invariably fill up quickly. ****************************************************************
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