Aggeliki Pelekidis was born in Brooklyn but moved around quite a bit thanks to her nomadic Greek parents. She worked in public relations in NYC for many years and was once the Manager of Communications for the New York Aquarium and the Director of Public Affairs for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She earned an MA and Ph.D in English with a creative writing emphasis from Binghamton University. Her collection of short stories, Patrimonium, won the Distinguished Dissertation Award in Creative Writing. Ann Beattie selected a story of hers as the first-prize winner of the New Ohio Review’s fiction contest. Her writing has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Confrontation, and many other literary journals. Her debut novel, Unlucky Mel, was published 9/15/24 by Cornell University Press’s Three Hills Imprint. She’s the Associate Director of First-Year Writing at BU and spends her free time gardening, taking care of her many pets, or riding her horses.
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