Stephanos Papadopoulos

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Greek-American Poet and translator, Stephanos Papadopoulos was born in North Carolina in 1976 and raised in Paris and Athens. Educated in the US and Edinburgh, he holds a degree in classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work has been published in periodicals such as The Yale Review, Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, The New Republic and many others. He has translated works of the Greek poets, [[Yiannis Ritsos]], Kostas Karyotakis and [[Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke]]. He is editor and co-translator of [[Derek Walcott]]’s “Selected Poems”, 2007. Selections of his work have been translated into Greek, Italian, Spanish and French. “Lost Days”, his first collection, is published by Michael Hulse with Leviathan Press in London and Rattapallax Press in New York. His second book “Hotel-Dieu” is forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press. He is at work on a third collection of poems about the Black Sea Greeks based on their historic exodus from that region.

Books: ISBN 1-903563-07-0 Lost Days, Stephanos Papadopoulos, 2001 Leviathan Press, UK, Rattapallax Press, NY

Translations: ISBN 960-03-4267-9 Poems, Derek Walcott, 2006 Kastaniotis Editions, Athens, Greece

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