Dean Bakopoulos
Dean Bakopoulos’ first novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, was selected by the New York Times as one of 100 Notable Books of 2005 and received “Book of the Year” awards from the New York Public Library, the Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Library of Michigan, and the Friends of American Writers. The recipient of a 2006–07 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, his second novel, My American Unhappiness, is forthcoming from Harcourt. He has been an instructor and guest lecturer at the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell, and other institutions, and is currently the writer-in-residence at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.