Christopher Bakken

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Christopher Bakken

Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, chef, travel writer, and professor at Allegheny College. [1]

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He graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A. and from University of Houston with a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. He was a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bucharest in 2008. [2] He is Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos. [3]

His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Wall Street Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Western Humanities Review. [4] His first poetry collection, After Greece (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize.

His burger recipe won a Food & Wine contest. [5]

Works

Books

Influences/Like Voices

Translations

Anthologies

Review

If Bakken can, in the future, stay put in his resplendent Hellenic-inflected imagination for a good while, and avoid the art museum and his personal library, he may just write a book with the smell, taste, and texture of ambrosia. Goat Funeral isn’t quite that, but it’s not chopped liver, either. [6]

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Christopher Bakken, Department Chair « English | Allegheny College – Meadville, PA". sites.allegheny.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  2. ↑ "PEN American Center - Authors". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-05-24. Retrieved 2022-02-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Christopher Bakken". Poets & Writers. 25 July 2005.
  5. ↑ "Greek Island Lamb Burgers with Grilled Feta Recipe". Food & Wine.
  6. ↑ Sewell, David (February 7, 2007). "Goat Funeral". Coldfront Magazine.
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