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Karine Leno Ancellin
Karine Leno Ancellin was born and grew up in New York City. She earned an MA, with Honours, in Literature at the Charles V Institute of Paris VII; and worked on ‘Hybrid identities’...view moreKarine Leno Ancellin was born and grew up in New York City. She earned an MA, with Honours, in Literature at the Charles V Institute of Paris VII; and worked on ‘Hybrid identities’ for her PhD at the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels. She worked as a journalist covering the Sahara region from Mauritania, in the early 90s, and was based as a ‘development’ correspondent from Brussels in 2000. She has been living in Athens for the past 6 years. She is a professor of literature, editor, writer and translator and has recently authored a poetry collection, The Missing Angle, published by Riza Press in December 2019. She is founder and director of A Poets’ Agora.
Angela Lyras was born in New York to a Greek seafaring family from the islands of Chios. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the New School for Social Research, and then lived and worked in London for several years before returning to New York to work as Executive Assistant, in the early 90s, at The Institute of Contemporary Art/ PS1 Museum (now Moma/PS1). In 1991, she co-directed with artist Nicola Tyson, a Manhattan Soho-based contemporary arts project space for women, Trial Balloon, until 1994. Since then she shares her time between New York and Athens. She is co-founder and co-director of A Poets’ Agora, her Greek home also being the site where a Poets’ Agora Residency and events are held.view less
Books by Karine Leno Ancellin
Wings of Thought: Contemporary Greek and Philhellene Poetry The Missing Angle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings