Workshop Faculty

Fiction

Marly Swick is the author of two short story collections, Monogamy and The Summer Before the Summer of Love (HarperCollins), and two novels, Paper Wings (HarperCollins) and Evening News (Little, Brown). A recipient of an NEA grant, James Michener grant, and Wisconsin Creative Writing Institute Fellowship, her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The North American Review, among other magazines, and has been anthologized in O'Henry Prize Stories, Best of the South, Contemporary West Coast Writers, The Iowa Award, High Infidelity, and other collections.

Poetry

Aliki Barnstone’s poetry and translations have appeared in Poetry, New Letters, The New York Times, Agni, The American Poetry Review, etc. Her poetry collections include Blue Earth, Wild With It, Madly in Love, Windows in Providence, and The Real Tin Flower. The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation, appeared from W.W. Norton in 2006, and her Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Development was published by University Press of New England in 2007. She is Professor of English at University of Missouri.

Drama

David Crespy serves as the artistic director of its Missouri Playwrights Workshop and coordinates its Mizzou New Play Series, Mizzou on Broadway program, and MU Summer Repertory Comedies-in-Concert series. His plays have been developed and produced at theatres across the US. He serves as the Region V National Playwriting Program Chair through the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, has served as chair of the Playwriting Program for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Playwrights Symposium of the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and is the resident playwright for First Run Theatre, Inc. in St. Louis. Crespy is Associate Professor of Playwriting and founder of the Writing for Performance program for the University of Missouri’s Department of Theatre.

Greek Faculty and Staff

Markos Galounis studied Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature in Greece and Philosophy in U.K. He has published on the cinema of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and the work of the literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. He has done also research on Dostoevsky. He has taught Modern Greek as foreign language in the Naval War College in Athens, several Colleges in U.K. and Athens Centre.

Eirene Efstathiou, our MU Summer Seminars in Greece site coordinator, is an artist working in Athens. She holds a BFA from Tufts University and a studio art diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has exhibited her paintings and drawings in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and the United States. Her most recent exhibitions include, the Portland Biennial at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine and Selective Knowledge in collaboration with ITYS Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought in Athens. Eirene is a recipient of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Traveling Scholars grant, has work in public and private collections in Greece and the US, and is a member of the artists group LAIKART (ΛΑϊΚΑΡΤ), based in Athens. She has been involved with international College education since 2004 both as an instructor and as an on-site coordinator.