Ersi SotiropoulosAcclaimed Greek writer Ersi Sotiropoulos is the author of ten works of fiction and a book of poetry. Her novel Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees was the first novel ever to win both the Greek national prize for literature and Greece's preeminentbook critics' award. Sotiropoulos's originality and elegant natural style have won her audiences in many languages; she has been a fellow at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany, at Princeton University, as well as at numerous other programs around the world. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in English in the Harvard Review, Circumference, SmokeLong Quarterly, Words Without Borders, Metamorphoses, Absinthe, and Two Lines. Karen Emmerich is a translator of Modern Greek poetry and prose. Her translations include I'd Like by Amanda Michalopoulou (chosen for the top 25 translated books of 2008), Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris (nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Prize in Poetry and praised by Harold Bloom as revealing "not only the disturbing intensity of the original but also a remarkable diction and poetic pacing of her own"), and The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis by Vassilis Vassilikos, which the New York Times called a "superb" translation of "a deft and witty reflection on writing as well as a moving portrait of the artist in as political exile." She is the recipient of translation grants and awards from the NEA, PEN, and the Modern Greek Studies Association. Read More Read Less