Elena Georgiou

Writer, editor, and professor Elena Georgiou: author of Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants and mercy mercy me; co-editor of The World in Us...

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About Elena Georgiou

elena-georgiou-author-photoElena Georgiou is the author of the short-story collection The Immigrant’s Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018), and the poetry collections Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants (Harbor Mountain Press) and mercy mercy me (University of Wisconsin), which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award. She is also co-editor (with Michael Lassell) of the poetry anthology, The World In Us (St. Martin’s Press).

Georgiou has won an Astraea Emerging Writers Award, a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is an editor at Tarpaulin Sky Press and served as the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard College until 2021.

Georgiou is an English-Cypriot originally from London, where she spent the first twenty-seven years of her life. Since then, she has lived in the US — first in New York, now in Vermont.

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Recent Posts

Rain Taxi review of “The Immigrant’s Refrigerator”

My thanks to the very kind George Longenecker for his review of The Immigrant’s Refrigerator (GenPop Books 2018) in the current issue of In Rain Taxi. George writes: This is not the first time there has been racist, nativist backlash in this country and throughout the world, yet the U.S. remains a nation of immigrants, a place […]

New fiction in Cagibi

I’m thrilled to be part of Issue 5 — the first anniversary issue! — of Cagibi, whose editors were kind enough to publish my short story “Paradise, Undusted.”

The Immigrant’s Refrigerator reviewed in Sinister Wisdom

My thanks to Sara Gregory, who reviewed The Immigrant’s Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018) for issue 109 of Sinister Wisdom. Sara describes the collection as a “a multiply-voiced chorus spanning experiences of political upheaval, violence, sex work, death, scholarship, bread-baking, spirituality, physical and psychic hunger.” Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator arrives at an important sociopolitical moment. Dominant opinion has […]

Letter to a Not-So-Young Writer

  I am happy to have been asked to blog at the Story Prize, where I’ve written a “Letter to a Not-So-Young Writer.” Here’s an excerpt: I know that writing advice is divided over “writing what you know” versus “writing what you don’t know.” Why this split? Why not both? How do I feel about […]

Bustle Magazine features The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, New American Voices Award

My thanks to Maddy Foley for interviewing me for Bustle magazine, spotlighting the finalists for the New American Voices award. Here’s an excerpt: At the heart of the United States’ current immigration firestorm lies the myth of the American identity, which certain factions claim to be stalwart, never-changing, never-shifting. But the finalists for a new literary award honoring […]

Publishers Weekly highlights The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, finalists for New American Voices Award

Finalist!

I’m excited and honored that my new book, The Immigrant’s Refrigerator, has been named a finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. My thanks to FallForTheBook.org and the judges, and congratulations to the other finalists. I look forward to attending the award ceremony in October. From the website: Hernán Díaz, Elena […]

“Best of a Flourishing Genre”: Library Journal review of The Immigrant’s Refrigerator

I am honored that The Immigrant’s Refrigerator is included in Barbara Hoffert’s article, “The Art of the Short Story: 16 New Collections Reveal the Best of a Flourishing Genre,” at Library Journal. Hoffert writes: A Lambda Literary Award–winning poet, Georgiou portrays immigrants to America, both legal and illegal, in heartfelt, no-nonsense prose. . . . It’s indeed […]

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