Biographical Data

Dean Kostos is the author of Rivering (forthcoming in 2012), Last Supper of the Senses (which was required reading for a course in alternative poetics at Duke University), The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, and the chapbook Celestial Rust. He also edited the anthology Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry; its debut reading was held at the UN. He co-edited the anthology of personal essays Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothers, a Lambda Book Award finalist.

His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in over 300 publications, including on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site Oxygen.com, in Bayou Magazine, Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Boulevard, Borderlines, Chelsea, The Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Confrontation, The Dos Passos Review, The Dirty Goat, Ekphrasis, Euphony, The Griffin, Minnetonka Review, Owen Wister Review, Poetry in Performance, Porcupine, Rattapallax, Reading Brokeback Mountain (anthology), Red Rock Review, The Same, Southwest Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, Stranger at Home (anthology), Talisman, Vanitas, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Western Humanities Review, and Zone 3.

His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard U P Web site, in Talisman, American Book Review, and elsewhere.

He has co-translated poems from Spanish with Jaime Manrique for Bomb. Kostos's translations from Modern Greek have appeared in Barrow Street, Talisman, and http://qarrtsiluni.com. Serving on the editorial board of Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, he compiled and presented a Greek poetry event for the Rockefeller Foundation, July 2011. He runs and hosts the Greek-Amerocan Writers' Association at the Cornelia Street Cafe (http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/Performances.asp?sdate=9/17/2011&from_cal=0).

He wrote the text for the choral work Dialogue: Angel of Peace, Angel of War, set to music by James Bassi; the piece was commissioned and performed by Voices of Ascension. Box-Triptych, Kostos’s choreo-poem, was staged at La Mama ETC.

A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has taught at the Gallatin School of NYU, The Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Wesleyan, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, The City University of New York, Berkeley College, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop.

Recipient of a Yaddo fellowship, he has served as literary judge for Columbia University’s Gold Crown and Gold Circle Awards.