DON SCHOFIELD
Παρουσιάση:
- «Writing Poetry in Greece» (εαρινό εξάμηνο 2003)
Don Schofield attended California State University, Sacramento, where he earned a B.A. in Social Science (1975), a B.A. in English (1976), and an M.A. in English (1978). In 1980, he graduated the University of Montana with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Since 1980 Don Schofield has lived in Greece, teaching at the University of La Verne, Athens Campus, while traveling extensively in the Eastern Mediterranean and writing poetry. He has also been translating contemporary Greek poets into English, most notably Nikos Fokas, Sakelliou-Schultz and Kiki Dimoula. In addition, he has worked on various projects connected to the community of American writers living in Greece. These projects include an article in the American Periodicals & Writers, and an anthology of poems by American poets who have lived in Greece. His poetry volumes include Of Dust a chapbook from March Street Press (1991), Approximately Paradise, a book length collection (University Press of Florida, 2002), the anthology Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece(Truman State University Press, 2004), and The Known: Selected Poems of Nikos Fokas, 1981 – 2000 (Ypsilon Press, 2010). The recipient of the 2006 Allen Ginsberg Award, he has also received honors from, among others, the State University of New York, Anhinga Press, Southern California Anthology and Princeton University, where, he was a Stanley J. Seeger Writer-in-Residence. A resident of Greece for over 25 years, he currently lives in the northern city of Thessaloniki, where he is the Dean of Perrotis College, a branch of the American Farm School. Recently his translation of Nikos Fokas’ Selected Poems received a major award in Britain (2011).