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Natalie Bakopoulos

Biography

Natalie Bakopoulos

Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of the novels ARCHIPELAGO, SCORPIONFISH and THE GREEN SHORE, and her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, Mississippi Review, Tin House, VQR, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, The Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, O. Henry Prize Stories and various other publications.

She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, has received fellowships from the Camargo and MacDowell foundations and the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and was a 2015 Fulbright Fellow in Athens, Greece. She’s an associate professor at Wayne State University and has taught at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and Writing Workshops in Greece.

Natalie Bakopoulos

Books by Natalie Bakopoulos

Archipelago
by Natalie Bakopoulos - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, ARCHIPELAGO’s unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old friend who seems to have included a version of her in his novel. They strike up a romantic relationship as she continues her translation work. The hazy summer stretches on until, after a sudden shift, she embarks upon an impulsive road trip back to Greece, crossing borders.

Scorpionfish
by Natalie Bakopoulos - Fiction

After the unexpected deaths of her parents, academic Mira returns to her childhood home in Athens. On her first night back, she encounters a new neighbor, a longtime ship captain who has found himself no longer at sea for the first time in years. As one summer night tumbles into another, Mira and the Captain’s voices drift across the balconies of their apartments, disclosing details and stories: of careers, of families, of love. For Mira, love has so often meant Aris, an ex-boyfriend and rising Greek politician who has recently become engaged to a movie star. There is, too, her love for her dear friend Nefeli --- a well-known artist who came of age during the military dictatorship --- as well as Dimitra and Fady, a couple caring for a young refugee boy.