Dean bakopoulos biography

American writer (born )

Dean Bakopoulos (born in Dearborn Heights, Michigan) is an American writer. He is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow,^[1] and associate professor of cinema and head of the new screenwriting program at the University of Iowa.

Bakopoulos has a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Dean Bakopoulos is an American writer.

Dean Bakopoulos' first novel, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book; he co-wrote and co-produced the film adaptation.

Dean Bakopoulos is an American novelist and screenwriter.

Bakopoulos is an associate professor of cinema and head of screenwriting arts at University of Iowa.

Dean Bakopoulos is an American writer.

Please Don't Come Back from the Moon () was his debut novel, about fathers in Maple Rock, Detroit abandoning their families under a strange compulsion to go to the Moon. It is narrated by the young Mikey, a would-be writer, whose father feels the same desire to leave.

The New York Times said it "deftly weld[ed] magic realism with social satire".^[2] Entertainment Weekly gave it a B− saying it turned into a very conventional coming-of-age story.^[3]Peopl