Creative Writing (Poetry), Poetry and Poetics, Short Form Non-Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Poetry and Visual Art, Emily Dickinson, The American Renaissance, Translation, Comparative Literature (Poetry in Translation), Spirituality and Writing, Women’s Literature, Memoir, Religious Studies (especially Mysticism), Jewish Studies (Literature of the Holocaust).

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, memoirist, editor, and visual artist. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently, Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016), Bright Body (White Pine, 2011) and Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), three chapbooks, most recently, chapbook, Winter, with Child (Red Dragonfly Press, 2015). Her book of poems that deals with the Holocaust in Greece, Eva's Voice, is forthcoming in a bilingual edition translated by Liana Sakelliou (Vakxikon, 2022. She is the translator from the Modern Greek of The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006) as well as Portrait Before Dark (St. Julian, 2022) by Liana Sakelliou. Her first book of poems, The Real Tin Flower (Crowell-Collier, 1968), was published when she was 12 years old, with a foreword by Anne Sexton. In 2014, Carnegie-Mellon University Press reissued her book, Madly in Love, as a Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary.  She is the author of the critical study Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development (University Press of New England, 2007) and wrote the introduction and reader’s notes for H.D.'s Trilogy (New Directions, 1997). She co-edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken, 1980; 2nd Edition, 1992), which is still the most comprehensive anthology of world women's poetry. She also edited The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry (Shambhala, 1998; rpt. 2002) and co-edited The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (critical essays). Among her awards are a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, and residencies at the Anderson Center at Tower View. and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing, an affiliate of the Department of Women's Gender Studies Department, and served as poet laureate of Missouri from 2016-2019.