Nicholas Samaras

Author's Bio

I’m from Patmos, Greece (the “Island of the Apocalypse”) and, at the time of the Greek Junta (“Coup of the Generals”) was brought in exile to be raised further in America. I’ve lived in Greece, England, Wales, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Yugoslavia, Jerusalem, thirteen states in America, and I write from a place of permanent exile.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

American Psalm, World Psalm (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2014), Survivors of the Moving Earth (University of Salzburg Press, 1998), Hands of the Saddlemaker (Yale University Press, 1992)

Anthologies:

NIKOSIA (Lost Horse Press, 2010)

Journals:

American Scholar, Kenyon Review, New Criterion, Paris Review, Poetry, The New Yorker

Prizes:

Yale Series of Younger Poets Award NEA Fellowship, Poetry Lilly Endowment Fellowship

Personal Favorites

Favorite Books:

Daniel Simko, The Arrival

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Listing last updated: February 13, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

Greek

Born in:

Europe