Efrosini Kamatsou
Efrosini (Cindy) Kamatsou is both an academic scholar and a writer of fiction. She received her B.A. in English from Wesleyan University, her masters in European Literature at the University of Oxford, and her Ph.D. in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge.
She has been teaching literature and writing in universities in Greece for the past 15 years, currently at the American College of Greece. Her first novel Beneath the Surface/Μονοπάτια της Μνήμης, the tragicomic story of a woman who survived the German occupation of her village by helping the Nazis confiscate olive oil, was published in Greek translation by Livanis in 2010, and her second novel, The Duct-Tape Diary, a coming-of-age novel set in Mississippi, is currently awaiting publication.
Her published scholarly writing includes studies of works by Greek women writers The Female “I” in Modern Greek Prose Fiction, 1924-1962 and the edited volume His Words were Nourishment and his Counsel Food.
She will be teaching a creative writing workshop in Lesvos, Greece, together with artist Tomas Watson: students will paint portraits in the mornings and develop this character through writing in the afternoons.
