Helen Mitsios is a full professor in the Languages and Literature department.
She is an award-winning poet, writer, and editor. She is author of the poetry collections The Grand Tour and If Black Had a Shadow. She is the editor of five groundbreaking anthologies, New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan (listed twice as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and New York Times Summer Reading Selection); Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best Short Stories from Japan; Beneath the Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary Icelandic Poetry; Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland; and New Greek Voices: The Best Short Fiction from Greece.
Her publications appear in a number of journals, newspapers, and magazines including The Washington Post Book World, The Washington Times World & I Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Chronicle, The St. Petersburg Times, Publishers Weekly, Brooklyn Rail, France-Amérique, and SPIN.
Prof. Mitsios is a professional member of the New York Writers Workshop, pens the column “Out of Print Books We Love” and is Books & Poetry editor at Wonderlust magazine. She holds international presentations at venues including the University of Iceland Graduate Creative Writing Department, Athens University History Museum, and the University of Oxford in the UK. She holds an MA in English and American Literature from Arizona State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Education
- BA, Arizona State University
- MA, Arizona State University
- MFA, Columbia University
- EdD, New York University
