Conversations on Europe. "Athens, Notice Your Poet."

Natalie Bakopoulos, novelist; lecturer in English and affiliated faculty in Modern Greek, U-M. Sponsors: CES, Modern Greek Program.

Natalie Bakopoulos is a novelist; lecturer in English and affiliated faculty in Modern Greek, U-M. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan, where she now teaches. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ninth Letter, and Granta Online, and received a 2010 O. Henry Award, a Hopwood Award, and Platsis Prize for Work in the Greek Legacy. She is a contributing editor for the online journal Fiction Writers Review (www.fictionwritersreview.com). Each summer she teaches creative writing at the Aegean Arts Circle in Andros, Greece.

The Green Shore is Natalie Bakopoulos’s first novel.