Christopher Bakken
Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, chef, travel writer, and professor at Allegheny College. He graduated from Columbia University with an M.F.A. and from University of Houston with a Ph.D. 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 Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos. His work has appeared in "The Paris Review, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Wall Street Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Raritan, Southwest Review, and Western Humanities Review". His first poetry  collection, "After Greece" (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize. His burger recipe won a "Food & Wine" contest. Works. Books Influences/Like Voices 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.