Education
He graduated from Columbia University with an Master of Fine Arts and from University of Houston with a Doctor of Philosophy in literature and creative writing.
He graduated from Columbia University with an Master of Fine Arts and from University of Houston with a Doctor of Philosophy in literature and creative writing.
He was a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bucharest in 2008. He is Director of Writing hops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos. His work has appeared in The Paris, Georgia, Gettysburg, Wall Street Journal, Michigan Quarterly, The Iowa, Parnassus, Raritan, Southwest, and Western Humanities
If Bakken can, in the future, stay put in his resplendent Hellenic-inflected imagination for a good while, and avoid the art museum and his personal library, he may just write a book with the smell, taste, and texture of ambrosia.
Goat Funeral isn’t quite that, but it’s not chopped liver, either.