About Vasiliki

Vasiliki Katsarou was born in Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, University of Paris I-Sorbonne, and Boston University.

She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet whose first collection, Memento Tsunami, was published in 2011.  She is also the co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems and Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems, all by Ragged Sky Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

In  2014, Vasiliki was one of seventy national and international poets to read at the 15th biennial Dodge Poetry Festival in Newark, New Jersey, the largest poetry festival in the United States. She has also served as Geraldine R. Dodge Poet in the Schools in New Jersey since 2013.

Vasiliki Katsarou has read her work widely, including at Manhattan’s National Arts Club, Cornelia St. Café, and KGB Bar, as well as at the Princeton Arts Council, Princeton University, and the Princeton Public Library.

Her poetry has been published internationally, including in NOON: Journal of the Short Poem (Japan), Corbel Stone Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series (U.K.), Regime Journal (Australia), as well as in Poetry Daily, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Wild River Review, wicked aliceLiterary MamaLa Vague Journalbottlerockets, and Contemporary American Voices.

An active literary arts advocate, she is founding director of the Panoply Books Reading Series in Lambertville, NJ, and has organized many community poetry and art events. She currently works with artists and poets at the ArtYard contemporary arts center and the Hunterdon Art Museum in New Jersey.

 

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In addition to her poetry, she has written and directed an award-winning 35mm short film about utopia, called Fruitlands 1843.

You can read Vasiliki Katsarou’s artistic statement here.