Dean Bakopoulos

 Dean Bakopoulos is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at ISU, as well as a variety of undergraduate courses.

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Interests

• Creative writing, fiction and nonfiction; contemporary and modern fiction
• Labor history; working-class studies
• Screenwriting; drama; writing for stage and screen
• Environmental literature; environmental issues
• The public humanities & civic engagement

Selected Publications

• My American Unhappiness: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming 2010)
• Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (Novel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, forthcoming 2005)
• Essays and criticism in Real Simple, The Progressive, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Zoetrope and other magazines and anthologies.

Affiliations

• Wisconsin Humanities Council (public humanities fellow)
• Guggenheim Foundation (2008-09 Fellow, fiction)
• Alley Stage, Mineral Point, WI (writer-in-residence)

Degrees

• B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
• M.F.A., Fiction, University of Wisconsin-Madison