Dean Bakopoulos

Biography


Dean Bakopoulos is the author of a novel, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon, (Harcourt, 2005). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared recently in The Believer, The Progressive, and Zoetrope: All-Story. His short story “Happy,” published in the Summer 2004 issue of VQR, was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for Fiction. He lives in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, where he is executive director of the Wisconsin Humanities Council.

See Work

FICTION / Fall 2006

Cougar & Zeke

By Dean Bakopoulos

Cougar, Zeke’s little brother, will be home on Labor Day weekend. Cougar’s in Iraq, and this lends Zeke an air of authenticity when he marches around campus demanding peace. He has a personal stake in the war. He isn’t some pansy from a...

FICTION / Summer 2004

Happy

By Dean Bakopoulos

When he was twenty-nine years old, Charlie Pappas left Vermont and moved back to Detroit after suffering from what—in a more innocent, big-band-playing, hat-wearing era—would have been called a crack-up.