About the Author
Liana Sakelliou has published thirty books of poetry and criticism as well as translations of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, H.D., Denise Levertov, and Gary Snyder. Her own poems have been translated into twelve European languages—including her most recent volume of poems Sequentiae (2024) in Romanian, and This Side of Eden (2025) in Romanian and English—and have appeared in a number of anthologies and international journals.
She is Professor Emerita of the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Athens. The recipient of grants from, among others, the Fulbright Foundation and the Department of Hellenic Studies of Princeton University, Ms. Sakelliou served as a member of the Administrative Council of the Greek Authors Society, and was Chair of the Selection Committee for the European Union Prize for Literature. Ὅπου φυσᾶ γλυκὰ ἡ αὔρα (The Greek original of Wherever the Sweet Breeze Blows) was a finalist for the Greek National Poetry Award.
About the Translator
Born in Nevada and raised in California, Don Schofield is a graduate of the University of Montana (MFA, 1980).
A resident of Greece for many years, he has taught literature and creative writing at American, British, and Greek universities and traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, and farther afield. Fluent in Greek, a citizen of both his homeland and his adopted country, he is the editor of the anthology Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (Truman State University Press), and has published six books of poetry in the U.S., the first of which, Approximately Paradise (University Press of Florida), was a finalist for the 1985 Walt Whitman Award, and a more recent collection, In Lands Imagination Favors (Dos Madres Press), reached the final round for the 2015 Rubery Book Award (UK). His translations of contemporary Greek poets have been honored by the London Hellenic Society, shortlisted for the Greek National Translation Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Six poems from his latest poetry book, A Different Heaven: New & Selected Poems (Dos Madres Press 2023), were also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His memoir From the Cyclops Cave (Open Book Press) came out this past fall. Currently he lives in both Athens and Thessaloniki.
Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 27, 2026)
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