Ersi Sotiropoulus
From 16 March to 27 April 2026

Ersi Sotiropoulos was born in 1954 in Patras, Greece. The Greek writer and poet is also involved in visual poetry and video art. After working as a cultural attaché for the Greek embassy in Rome, she joined the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program to embark on a career in creative writing. Today she is the author of sixteen books of fiction and poetry, notably focusing on the themes of identity and memory, both collective and individual. Two of her novels are available in English translation, Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees (translated by Peter Green; Interlink Books, 2006) and What’s Left of the Night (translated by Karen Emmerich; New Vessel Press, 2018), which took the 2019 National Translation Award. Karen Emmerich has also translated the author’s short story collection Landscape with Dog and Other Stories (Clockroot Books, 2009). In the spring of 2022 she was the Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College in New York.