Please Don't Come Back from the Moon & Other Stories : A Fiction Reading
Dean Bakopoulos
Thursday, 24 Sep 2009 at 7:00 pm – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union
Dean Bakopoulos is a new faculty member in the Iowa State Creative Writing Program and author of the novel Please Don't Come Back from the Moon, a New York Times Notable Book. He has lectured at many universities about the economic and environmental problems facing the post-industrial Rust Belt and has published related essays and criticism. His one-act plays "Phonies" and "Wayside" have been produced at Alley Stage in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. 

The winner of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he is the former director of both the Wisconsin Book Festival and the Wisconsin Humanities Council. Bakopoulos earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Part of the Eco-Voices Series.Cosponsored By:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Humanities Iowa
- MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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