Olga Broumas

Education

University of Oregon. University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor"s degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a master"s degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon.

Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, contains erotic poems toward her women lovers.

Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995.

She spends her summers on Cape Cod, where she, in the Eighties, founded and taught at a school for female artists called Freehand, Incorporated.

Achievements

• Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award.

Works

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  • Rave: Poems, 1975-1999

    ( Frank, incendiary, and luminous collection by influenti...)

  • Beginning with O (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

    (Impassioned verses by a Greek-born writer are characteriz...)

  • Perpetua

    (A collection of poems, including The Massacre, No Harm Sh...)

  • Soie Sauvage

    (One of 150 copies signed by Broumas on the first title page.)

  • BEGINNING WITH O Volume 72 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

    (the book she won the yale younger poets prize for)

  • Pastoral Jazz

    (Book by Broumas, Olga)

  • Rave: Poems, 1975-1998 by Olga Broumas (1999-05-01)