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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Readings & Events

(reverse chronology)

11 October 2018: Fairfax, VA
Award Cermeony
Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
with Hernán Díaz, and Renee Macalino Rutledge
George Mason University
4400 University Drive

30 September 2018: Calais, VT
Elena Georgiou with Rick Agran
Words Out Loud Reading Series
Old West Church
758 Old W Church Road

24 April 2018: Montpelier, VT
VT Book launch for The Immigrant’s Refrigerator
Fundraiser for the VT Refugee Relocation Project (VRRP)
Reading & Q & A
7pm at Bear Pond Books

12 April 2018: Pittsfield, MA
at Berkshire Community College
1350 West St
Time TBD

4 April 2018: Lincroft, NJ
with Haroon Moghul
Refuge: Literary Readings from Diverse Writers
7-9pm in the Warner Center
Brookdale Community College

19 February 2018: Port Townsend, WA
with Rebecca Brown and Keenan Norris
4:45 to 5:45pm
Fort Worden
Reading Room
Building 204

15 February 2018: Seattle, WA
with Micheline Aharoninan Marcom, and Rebecca Brown
7pm @ Elliott Bay Books

13 February 2018: Boston, MA
with KL Pereira
Boston Public Library
Time 6pm

18 January 2018: Brooklyn, NY
NYC Book Launch for The Immigrant’s Refrigerator
7:30pm @ Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St in Fort Greene

16 November 2017: NYC
Jezebels Revisited, with Kelli Dunham and Lauren Sanders
7pm @ KGB Bar
85 E 4th St

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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