Vasilis Manousakis

Vasilis Manousakis holds a Ph.D. in American poetry and teaches literary translation and introduction to translation studies at the Hellenic American Union (HAU, academic year 2014-2015). He has also previously taught at the University of the Peloponnese and the University of Cyprus. He writes and translates poetry, prose, and essays, and contributes to various literary magazines in Greece and abroad. He was a member of the editorial team of the online poetry magazine .poema. [www.e-poema.eu] and curated a series of articles on Contemporary Greek Literature for the British online literary encyclopedia [www.litencyc.com]. Additionally, he was a regular contributor to the literary magazines "Planodion" and "Poetix." Between 2007-2012, he actively participated in organizing the Hellenic American Poetry Symposium, inaugurated by poets Susan Gevirtz and Sia Rita Kouka, in Paros and Delphi, and was responsible for its websites [www.parossymposium.com] and [inotherwords-symposium-greece.blogspot.com]. He has published the poetry collections "A Drop of Time" (Planodion, 2009), "Movie Stills" (.poema.., 2013 - written in English), "Fragile Boundary" (bilingual edition, Planodion, 2014), and the short story collection "Dreams of People" (Ant. Stamoulis Editions, 2010). His poems and translations have appeared in magazines such as "Planodion," "Poetix," [www.e-poema.eu], [www.poeticanet.com], "Little Red Leaves," "New American Writing," and "Drunken Boat." He edited the "Planodion" magazine's tribute to Bonsai Stories, which led to a publication of the same name, as well as the American magazine "Drunken Boat's" tribute to Contemporary Greek Poets (2014). He is a member of the editorial team of the online translation magazine http://philadelphus.gr.