Natalie Bakopoulos holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she now teaches. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ninth Letter, andGranta Online, and has received a 2010 O. Henry Award, a Hopwood Award, and a Platsis Prize for Work in the Greek Legacy. She is a contributing editor for the online journal Fiction Writers Review. Her newly published first novel, The Green Shore, set in Athens and Paris, paints a portrait of one family whose stories of love and resistance are set against the backdrop of the late 1960s Greek military dictatorship.
