Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.

Born and raised on the island of Syros, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania.

[1] After earning this degree, Broumas co-founded and taught at Freehand, Inc., a school in Provincetown, Massachusetts for female writers and artists.

[2] Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, was considered groundbreaking in its depiction of explicit lesbian sexuality.

[1] Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series[3] in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award[citation needed].