ELENA GEORGIOU
Elena Georgiou is the author of the short-story collection The Immigrant’s Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018), and the poetry collections Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants (Harbor Mountain Press) and mercy mercy me (University of Wisconsin), which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award. She is also co-editor (with Michael Lassell) of the poetry anthology, The World In Us (St. Martin’s Press). Georgiou has won an Astraea Emerging Writers Award, a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work appears in journals such as BOMB, Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, Gargoyle, Lumina, MiPoesia, and Spoon River Review. She is an editor at Tarpaulin Sky Press and the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Goddard College.
Georgiou is an English-Cypriot originally from London, where she spent the first twenty-seven years of her life. Since then, she has lived in the US — first in New York, now in Vermont. She maintains a website at elenageorgiou.com.
BOOKS BY ELENA GEORGIOU
THE IMMIGRANT’S REFRIGERATOR
ELENA GEORGIOU
* SPD Fiction Bestseller
* Finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
$16.00Add to cart
GenPop Books, Feb 2018.
Short Stories. 180 pages. Paperback.
ISBN 9780998512648
Also available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and IndieBound, or through our distributors, SPD.
If luck is on an author’s side, a book reaches its audience at the right time. Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator can confidently make this claim. Populated with a cast of characters that shine the light on what it means to be an outsider in the early part of the 21st century, this story collection takes its reader into the private lives of those who have entered a country legally, others who were forced to enter illegally, and the rest who call a country home as a result of birth; characters searching for what they need to sustain them on their journeys towards a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also one of hope.
“Quiet, yet powerful stories…. Georgiou’s timely collection will appeal to any reader interested in immigration issues.” (BOOKLIST) “Keen, sobering work…. Lambda Literary Award–winning poet, Georgiou portrays immigrants to America, both legal and illegal, in heartfelt, no-nonsense prose. (LIBRARY JOURNAL: “The Art of the Short Story: 16 New Collections Reveal the Best of a Flourishing Genre”) “Exquisite… At a moment when America’s political response to The Other is triggering a national crisis of conscience, these poignant stories remind us of the vital role that human compassion plays in bridging ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic divides.” (AIMEE LIU) “A quietly devastating collection of stories about loners, craving love and connection, trying to survive in a world where war is always raging somewhere and happiness is a phantom of the future…. And still, it is a celebration of life in all of its scars and joys, chance and invention, awe and longing to be seen, and, over and over, a testament to the tender, transformative power of acceptance and love.” (RAHNA REIKO RIZZUTO) “Elena Georgiou is a dazzlingly good writer. The thirteen stories in The Immigrant’s Refrigerator are stirring, wise, and keenly alert to the longings and contradictions that impel their beguiling characters. I loved this collection.” (JOHN MCMANUS)
EVENTS
(reverse chronology)
11 October 2018: Fairfax, VA
Award Cermeony
Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
Finalists: Elena Georgiou, Hernán Díaz, and Renee Macalino Rutledge
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
30 September 2018: Calais, VT
Elena Georgiou with Rick Agran
Words Out Loud Reading Series
Old West Church
758 Old W Church Road
24 April 2018: Montpelier, VT
VT Book launch for Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator
Fundraiser for the VT Refugee Relocation Project (VRRP)
Reading & Q & A
7pm at Bear Pond Books
12 April 2018: Pittsfield, MA
Elena Georgiou at Berkshire Community College
1350 West St
Time TBD
4 April 2018: Lincroft, NJ
Elena Georgiou and Haroon Moghul
Refuge: Literary Readings from Diverse Writers
7-9pm in the Warner Center
Brookdale Community College
19 February 2018: Port Townsend, WA
Elena Georgiou withRebecca Brown and Keenan Norris
4:45 to 5:45pm
Fort Worden
Reading Room
Building 204
15 February 2018: Seattle, WA
Elena Georgiou, Micheline Aharoninan Marcom, and Rebecca Brown
7pm @ Elliott Bay Books
13 February 2018: Boston, MA
Elena Georgiou and KL Pereira
Boston Public Library
Time 6 pm
18 January 2018: Brooklyn, NY
Book Launch for Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator
7:30pm @ Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St in Fort Greene
16 November 2017: NYC
Jezebels Revisited, with Kelli Dunham, Elena Georgiou, and Lauren Sanders
7pm @ KGB Bar
85 E 4th St
ALL POSTS FOR ELENA GEORGIOU
Elena Georgiou’s “The Immigrant’s Refrigerator” reviewed in Rain Taxi
In Rain Taxi, George Longenecker reviews Elena Georgiou's The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GenPop Books 2018).
Elena Georgiou featured in Cagibi’s 1st Anniversary Issue
New fiction by GPB author Elena Georgiou -- "Paradise, Undusted" -- is featured in the first anniversary issue of Cagibi.
Elena Georgiou featured at the Story Prize blog
At the Story Prize blog, Elena Georgiou, author of The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GenPop Books 2018), offers advice to "Not-So-Young Writers."
Sinister Wisdom reviews Elena Georgiou’s “The Immigrant’s Refrigerator”
Sinister Wisdom features a brilliant review of Elena Georgiou's The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018): "a multiply-voiced chorus spanning experiences of political upheaval, violence, sex work, death, scholarship, bread-baking, spirituality, physical and psychic hunger."
Bustle Magazine features Elena Georgiou, finalists for New American Voices Award
“Writing The Immigrant's Refrigerator taught me the following things," Elena Georgiou tells Bustle. "Borders change. Countries appear and disappear. Walls go up. Walls come down. Wars begin. Wars end. These are the things that divide us. And the things that unite us.”
Elena Georgiou named Finalist for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award
The book prize was judged by Helon Habila, Madeleine Thien, and Maaza Mengiste. Georgiou will attend an award ceremony on October 11 at George Mason University.
Elena Georgiou’s The Immigrant’s Refrigerator makes SPD Fiction Bestsellers list
We're tickled to announce that Elena Georgiou's The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GPB 2018) has made the Fiction Bestsellers list at Small Press Distribution.
“Best of a Flourishing Genre”: Library Journal review of The Immigrant’s Refrigerator by Elena Georgiou
Elena Georgiou's The Immigrant's Refrigerator is featured in "The Art of the Short Story: 16 New Collections Reveal the Best of a Flourishing Genre," at Library Journal.
Elena Georgiou at Epiphany Mag: A Conversation about Immigration, Food, and Dance
At Epiphany Magazine, Nancy Hightower interviews Elena Georgiou, author of a new collection of short stories, The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018).
Elena Georgiou featured at Entropy Mag’s “Dinnerview”
Author of a new collection of short stories, The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GenPop Books, 2018), Elena Georgiou is featured at Entropy Magazine's column by Danielle Susi, "Dinnerview."
Fiction by Elena Georgiou featured in Cagibi
"The Evolution of Beauty," from Elena Georgiou's new collection of short stories, The Immigrant's Refrigerator, (GenPop Books, 2018) is featured at Cagibi.
Booklist review of The Immigrant’s Refrigerator by Elena Georgiou
Thanks to Kathy Sexton for this great review of Elena Georgiou's The Immigrant's Refrigerator (GPB, 2018) at the American Library Association's Booklist.