Christopher Bakken

Christopher Bakken (born 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin) an American poet, translator, chef, travel writer, and professor at Allegheny College.

He was a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at the University of Bucharest in 2008.

[2] He is Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki and Thasos.

[4] His first poetry collection, After Greece (2001), was published by Truman State University Press after he won the T. S. Eliot Prize.

[5] 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.