Dean Bakopoulos

Dean Bakopoulos, whose work bestselling author Lorrie Moore has praised as “full of insight and inspiration and the best kind of divine comedy,” returns with the keenly funny and honest Summerlong. Dean Bakopoulos is the author of New York Times Notable Book Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon and My American Unhappiness. He holds an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the winner of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is the writer-in-residence of English at Grinnell College, and lives in Iowa.