Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas studied at University of Oregon and University of Pennsylvania. Employment is recorded with Brandeis University. Work by Olga Broumas is recorded in the collections of Oregon Poetry Collection. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Lambda Literary Award and Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Born and raised on the island of Syros, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania. There, she earned her bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oregon. After earning this degree, Broumas co-founded and taught at Freehand, Inc., a school in Provincetown, Massachusetts for female writers and artists. The school disbanded in 1987. Broumas has worked in the creative writing programs at several universities, including the University of Idaho and Goddard College. She currently is the Professor Emerita of the Practice of English at Brandeis University.

• What I Love: Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1986). • The Little Mariner by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1988). • Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press,1998).

• Beginning with O (Yale, 1977). • Soie Sauvage (Copper Canyon Press, 1979). • Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon Press, 1983). • With Jane Miller: Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan, 1985). • Perpetua (Copper Canyon Press, 1989). • With T. Begley: Sappho’s Gymnasium (Copper Canyon Press, 1994). • Rave: Poems, 1975-1999 (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).