Eleni Stecopoulos

Faculty, Language and Thinking Program

Biography: Eleni Stecopoulos is a poet, writer, and educator. She was educated at Princeton University and earned an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in English from the University at Buffalo. She has published a book of poetry, Armies of Compassion (Palm Press, 2010), and her essays and poems appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Somatic Engagement (Chain Links), VIZ Inter-Arts, Encyclopedia (F-K), Ecopoetics, XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, The Capilano Review, Chain, and Harvard Review. From 2008-2010, she curated an innovative program series for The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University called “The Poetics of Healing,” which brought writers, artists, health practitioners, humanities scholars and social scientists together in performance and conversation around art, medicine, language, and the body. Currently she is writing a poetic-critical book on the “Poetics of Healing” project, as well as a book-length poem which investigates ecology via Greek kinship and ritual landscapes. She teaches rhetoric at the University of San Francisco, and lives in Berkeley.
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