Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, chef, travel writer, and professor at Allegheny College. [1]
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He graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A. and from University of Houston with a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing. He was a Fulbright Scholar twice: in American Studies at the University of Bucharest in 2008 and again at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in 2021. [2] He is Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos. [3] Bakken serves as poetry editor of Ergon: Greek/American and Diaspora Arts & Letters.
His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Wall Street Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Western Humanities Review. [4] His first poetry collection, After Greece (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University).
His burger recipe won a Food & Wine contest. [5]
