Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of two novels: Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2013). Her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, the Iowa Review, the New York Times, Granta, the Kenyon Review, the Mississippi Review, the O. Henry Prize Stories, and various other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, and in 2015, she was a Fulbright scholar in Athens, Greece. She’s an associate professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and a faculty member of Writing Workshops in Greece.