Dean Kostos

	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Booksense Contacts	Dean Kostos holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University. He is the author of the collection The Sentence that Ends with a Comma (Painted Leaf Press, 1999; it was taught at Duke University, 2003) and the chapbook Celestial Rust (Red Dust Press, 1994). He co-edited the anthology Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers (Painted Leaf Press, 2000), a Lambda Book Award finalist. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Art & Understanding, Barrow Street, The Bitter Oleander, Blood and Tears (anthology), Bloom, Boulevard, Chelsea, The Cimarron Review, Exquisite Corpse, The International Poetry Review, The James White Review, The National Forum, Oprah Winfrey's Web site Oxygen, Poetry New York, Rattapallax, Southwest Review, The Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. His translations from the Modern Greek and Spanish have appeared in Talisman, Bomb, and Barrow Street, his reviews in American Book Review, Bay Windows, and elsewhere. Box-Triptych, his choreo-poem, was staged at La Mama. He has taught poetry writing at Pratt University, Gotham Writers' Workshop, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, The Great Lakes Colleges Association, and The Columbia Scholastic Press Association. He is a member of PEN American Center, and was also the recipient of a Yaddo fellowship. Trained initially as a visual artist, his works have been exhibited in galleries and at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Dean Kostos holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University.
He is the author of the collection The Sentence that Ends with a Comma
(Painted Leaf Press, 1999; it was taught at Duke University, 2003) and the
chapbook Celestial Rust (Red Dust Press, 1994). He co-edited the anthology
Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers (Painted Leaf Press, 2000),
a Lambda Book Award finalist. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry
Review, Art & Understanding, Barrow Street, The Bitter Oleander, Blood and Tears
(anthology), Bloom, Boulevard, Chelsea, The Cimarron Review, Exquisite Corpse,
The International Poetry Review, The James White Review, The National Forum,
Oprah Winfrey's Web site Oxygen, Poetry New York, Rattapallax, Southwest Review,
The Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. His translations from the Modern
Greek and Spanish have appeared in Talisman, Bomb, and Barrow Street, his
reviews in American Book Review, Bay Windows, and elsewhere. Box-Triptych, his
choreo-poem, was staged at La Mama. He has taught poetry writing at Pratt University,
Gotham Writers' Workshop, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, The Great Lakes Colleges
Association, and The Columbia Scholastic Press Association. He is a member of PEN
American Center, and was also the recipient of a Yaddo fellowship. Trained initially
as a visual artist, his works have been exhibited in galleries and at the Brooklyn Museum.