Deno Trakas

Deno Trakas was the Laura and Winston Hoy Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Wofford College, but now he’s a happy retiree who spends his time writing, reading, playing tennis, walking his friendly Doberman, and trying to keep the deer from eating his flowers. He’s published two chapbooks of poems, a memoir entitled Because Memory Isn’t Eternal: A Story of Greeks in Upstate South Carolina, and the novel Messenger from Mystery. He’s currently revising a new novel, The Admiral of Smyrna. He’s won five S.C. Fiction Project Prizes for short stories and an individual artist grant in fiction from the S.C. Arts Commission. He’s also collaborating with a colleague who’s a photographer and art historian on a series of abstract photographs for which he writes haiku.

Speakers Bureau Topics by Deno Trakas

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor: the Complex Stories of Immigrants in America in the Twentieth Century

Author Talks Literature and Writing

So We Beat On, Boats Against the Current: the Perennial Appeal of The Great Gatsby

Literature and Writing Twentieth-Century History and Culture

Running with Bulls and The Sun Also Rises

Famous and Infamous People Literature and Writing Twentieth-Century History and Culture

Only Trouble Is Interesting: The Art and Craft of the Short Story

Literature and Writing

A Reading from and Discussion of Messenger from Mystery

Author Talks Literature and Writing Twentieth-Century History and Culture

Deno Trakas

Speakers Bureau Topics by Deno Trakas

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