Helen Mitsios is a full professor in the Language 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 editor of four 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”; and “Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland.”

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, The Forward, France-Amérique, and SPIN.

Prof. Mitsios is a member of the New York Writers Workshop, pens the books section “Out of Print Books We Love” and is Books & Poetry editor at Wonderlust magazine. She gives international presentations at venues including the University of Iceland’s graduate creative writing department and Oxford University, UK. She holds an MA in English and American Literature from Arizona State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.