Deno Trakas
Reading and signing

Deno Trakas is the Hoy Professor of American Literature and Chair of the English Department at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he lives with his wife, Kathy. Holocene Press has published two chapbooks of his poetry, The Shuffle of Wings and human & puny, and he’s published fiction and poetry in anthologies and magazines such as The Cimarron Review, The Denver Quarterly, Oxford American, and Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek American Poetry. His work has appeared in several Hub City publications, most recently the award-winning Expecting Goodness & Other Stories. Trakas explores the peculiarly Southern version of the Greek-American story in his new book Because Memory Isn’t Eternal: A Story of Greeks in Upstate South Carolina, forthcoming from Hub City Press.