Education
Bakis was raised in Westchester County, New York, and graduated from New York University in 1990.
Bakis was raised in Westchester County, New York, and graduated from New York University in 1990.
She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa Writer"s hop, a grant from the Michener/Copernicus Society of America. She has taught at Hampshire College and was a writer-in-residence at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York in 2005. Lives of the Monster Dogs received mostly positive reviews.
Critics praised it for its originality, while also noting some of its drawbacks as science fiction.