June 2nd-12th 2025
Kristina Marie Darling
Kristina Marie Darling
Kristina Marie Darling
New Books from Persea, Penguin, Dzanc, & Black Lawrence Press
Editor-in-Chief, Tupelo Press & Tupelo Quarterly
Contributing Web Editor, The Best American Poetry
Public Speaker, The Ovation Agency
Fulbright Specialist & Expert Consultant, The University of Lomé
Visiting Artist, The American Academy in Rome | Civita Institute Fellow | Villa Lena Foundation Fellow
Recent Teaching & Speaking Engagements at the American University of Rome, Yale University, Stanford University, The Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop, & the New School
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-nine books. An expert consultant with the United States Fulbright Commission, a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, and a member of the peer review panel for Fulbright grants, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry, a 2024 Villa Lena Foundation Fellowship, a 2024 Civita Institute Fellowship, and ten juried residencies at the American Academy in Rome. Currently a faculty member at The Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop, she has taught (or is scheduled to teach) at Yale University, the American University in Rome, Stanford University, where she leads a workshop in professional empowerment through their Continuing Studies Division, the New School, and in Cedar Crest College’s Pan-European MFA Program. Dr. Darling is Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press & Tupelo Quarterly. Born and raised in the American Midwest, she now divides her time between Greece, Rome, and the Amalfi Coast.
Amalia Melis
Director
Aegean Arts Circle
Aegean Arts Circle
Amalia Melis is creator and organizer of Aegean Arts Circle Writing Workshops. Her essays, short stories and other creative writing have been published in The New York Times, Guernica, Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, MacQueen's, KYSO Flash, DUCTS, Poet & Critic, Sojourner, among others. She is a freelance reporter/feature writer for U.S. and Greek newspapers/magazines. She is an assemblage sculptor and her work has been part of group art exhibits in Vermont, U.S., Athens & Andros Greece, Berlin, Germany. She holds an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School of Social Research, New York.
www.amaliamelis.com
The New York Times
Modern Love June 25th 2023