Education
He is also a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers.
He is also a faculty member in the Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers.
He is a National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellow and writer-in-residence at Grinnell College. Bakopoulos has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and an Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Please Don"t Come Back from the Moon (2005) was his debut novel, about fathers in Maple Rock, Detroit abandoning their families under a strange compulsion to go to the moon.
lieutenant 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 magic realism with social satire". Entertainment Weekly gave it a Bsaying it turned into a very conventional coming-of-age story.
People gave it 3.5/4. My American Unhappiness (2011), his second novel, is narrated by Zeke Pappas, a young man compiling an inventory of American unhappiness for a struggling non-profit organization.
The New York Times found Bakopoulos charming but the book too frivolous and archaeology
The Los Angeles Times found that some of the characters were one-dimensional, there only to advance the plot, but found the satire was pleasantly combined with warmth and affection for its subjects. Summerlong, his third novel, was published by Ecco in June 2015.