| Nikos Alexiou was born in Volos, Greece in 1959. He studied Economics in Athens and worked in various professions. In the mid-1980s, he moved to New York to study Sociology. Since 1990 he has been teaching at Queens College, State University of New York (CUNY). He has received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and his academic interests include sociological and political theory and research, as well as issues concerning Greek Americans. He is the founder/director of the first Oral History Archive of the Greeks of New York, as well as the Hellenic American Library and Museum of Hellenism, (Hellenic American Project, QC). Six collections of his poetry have been published up until now. His poems have, also, been published in Greek and American magazines and anthologies. He is a corresponding member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society and the Hellenic Literature Society of New York. |
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