Aggeliki Pelekidis was born in Brooklyn and was a public relations executive in NYC for a decade. She earned her MA and Ph.D in English with a creative writing emphasis from Binghamton University. Her dissertation, a short-story collection titled Patrimonium, won the Distinguished Dissertation Award in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, North Dakota Quarterly, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Confrontation, The Masters Review, and many other journals. Her short story, “Blah, Blah, Black Sheep” was selected by Ann Beattie as the winner of a New Ohio Review fiction contest. Her debut novel, Unlucky Mel, was recently published by Cornell University Press’ Three Hills Imprint.
This event has been made possible by the generous support of:
The President’s Office, the Haines Fund, the Provost’s Office, the Cortland College Foundation, the Institutional Equity and Inclusion Office, the Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee, CAS, the Writing Center, the Dowd Gallery, and the English Department.
For questions, please contact heather.bartlett@cortland.edu
- Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
- Location: Dowd Fine Arts Center, Dowd Gallery Room 106