Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, memoirist, editor, and visual artist. The most recent of her nine books of poetry is Dwelling (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016) and Eva’s Voice, translated into Modern Greek by Liana Sakelliou (Vakhikon Publications, Athens, Greece, forthcoming in a bilingual edition). Her books of translations from Greek are The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (W.W. Norton, 2006) and Liana Sakelliou’s Portrait Before Dark (St. Julian Press, 2022). Among her awards are two Senior Fulbright Fellowships in Greece, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and residencies at the Anderson Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri and served as poet laureate of Missouri from 2016-2019.

Barnstone is also the author of the critical work Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Development (2007). She is the translator of The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation (2006), and her translations appear widely. Barnstone has edited the collection A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (1980; 1992), The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (1997), and Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women Around the World from Ancient Sumeria to Now (1999; 2003). She also wrote the introduction and reader’s notes for H.D.’s Trilogy (1998). A former Fulbright scholar to Greece, Barnstone now leads the Summer Seminars in Greece with Scott Cairns. In 2016, Barnstone was named poet laureate of Missouri.