Dean Bakopoulos

Dean Bakopoulos is the author of the novels Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), My American Unhappiness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Summerlong (Ecco/HarperCollins). The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA fellowships in both fiction and nonfiction, Bakopoulos is writer-in-residence at Grinnell College and on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. A WGA screenwriter, he co-wrote the film adaptation of his first novel and is co-creator and executive producer of the HBO MAX series Made for Love. Bakopoulos is currently developing several new projects for film and television, including Goodwinter, which he co-created with his partner, writer Alissa Nutting, as well as bestselling author Michael Perry and Grammy-winning musician Justin Vernon.