Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012) and Scorpionfish (Tin House, July 7, 2020). Her work has appeared in Tin House, the Iowa Review, the New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, and The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. She’s an assistant professor of creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and a faculty member of the summer program Writing Workshops in Greece. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.