Women Writers Initiative

Greece


ANGHELAKI-ROOKE, Katerina

Birth date: 1939
Birthplace: Athens, Greece
Education: Educated at the Universities of Athens, Nice, and Geneva in foreign languages and literature.
Professional Career: Anghelaki-Rooke has published several volumes of poetry and was awarded the National Prize for poetry in 1985.

Works

  • Beings and Things on Their Own.   1986.

 

BROUMAS, Olga

Birth date: 1949
Birthplace:
Education:
Professional Career: Broumas has taught at several colleges and universities and is the poet-in-residence at Brandeis University. She won the Yale series of Younger Poets award in 1977, and was awarded a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1978.

Works

  • Rave: poems: 1975-1999. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1999.
  • Sappho's Gymnasium. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1999.
  • Perpetua. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1989.
  • Black Holes, Black Stockings. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1985.
  • Pastoral Jazz. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1983.
  • Beginning With O. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.

 

PSANIS, Maria

Birth date: 1954
Birthplace: Athens, Greece
Education: Received an associates degree in liberal arts from the Hartford College for Women in 1976, a Batchelor's degree in English literature from the University of Hartford in 1979, and a Master's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Hartford in 1995.
Professional Career: Psanis is a poet who loves photography, music, theater, and the ocean. She has written eight volumes of poetry and is a member of several literary organizations, such as the National Writers Club and the Poetry Society of America.

Works

  • I Forgot to Ask God.
  • Asomatos Erotas (Bodiless Love).
  • Breaking the Cycle. Pleasant Hill, CA: Small Poetry Press, 1997.
  • Searching for You. M. Psanis, 1989.
  • Today's Tears...Tomorrow's Laughter.
  • Immortal Shadows.
  • Thoughts...Love...and You. Chicago: Adams Press, 1981.
  • The Free Inhibited Child.

Website: http://www.poetmaria.com

 

EPANOMITIS, Fotini

Birth date: 1969
Birthplace: Perth, Australia
Education: Obtained an M.A. from Curtin University.
Professional Career: Although Epanomitis grew up in Australia, her Greek heritage has tremendously impacted her writing style. She received the Australian/Vogel Award for first novel and was the Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1993 for The Mule's Foal.

Works

  • The Mule's Foal. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993.

 

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