Undressing the Earth

Becky Dennison Sakellariou was born and raised in the United States outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and in 1965, she moved to Greece where she married, settled and thrived for more than forty years. Her professional work has included teaching, writing, editing, and counseling. Sakellariou’s attachment to Greece and her abiding roots in New England have given her the gift of two singular perspectives on peoples, cultures, geography, and daily living which inhabit and enrich Sakellariou’s writing. Sakellariou has written and published poetry for many years. Her chapbook, The Importance of Bone, won first prize in the Blue Light Press (San Francisco) competition of 2005, and her full-length book, Earth Listening, was published in 2010 by Hobblebush Books of Brookline, NH. In 2013, Finishing Line Press (Tennessee) brought out her chapbook, What Shall I Cry?, which was followed by a two-year long collaboration with Greek poet, Maria Laina, for The Possibility of Red/Η Πιθανοτιτα του Κοκκι