About Natalie Bokop
Natalie Bakopoulos
Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of the forthcoming novel Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and the novel The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, O. Henry Prize Stories, and various other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, has received fellowships from the Sozopol Fiction Seminars and from the Camargo, Can Cab, and MacDowell foundations. She was a 2015 Fulbright fellow in Athens and is currently an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Scorpion Fish
Scorpionfish is a map of how and where we find our true selves: in the pull of the sea, the sway of late-night bar music, the risk and promise of art, and in the sparkling, electric charge of endless possibility. Natalie Bakopoulos weaves a story of vulnerability, desire, and bittersweet truth, unraveling old ways of living and, in the end, creating something new.
The Green Shore
Set in Paris and Athens, The Green Shore is an ambitious, lyrical tour de force that captures the human cost of a terrifying historical moment. In flawless, gorgeous prose, award-winning novelist Natalie Bakopoulos draws us into the lives of unforgettable people who vividly illuminate not only this place and this time but, fundamentally, what it means to be human.