Discipline: Literature – fiction

Natalie Bakopoulos

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Ann Arbor, MI
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013

Natalie Bakopoulos's first novel, The Green Shore, was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2012. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Michigan, where she now teaches. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ninth Letter, Granta.com, Salon.com, The New York Times, and The New York Times Book Review, and has received an O. Henry Award, a Hopwood Award, and the Platsis Prize for Work in the Greek Legacy. She is a contributing editor for the online journal Fiction Writers Review. She worked on her second novel.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Natalie Bakopoulos worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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