Aliki Barnstone
Poet Laureate of Missouri, 2016–2019
Aliki Barnstone is a Greek American and Jewish American poet and translator. She is the author of eight poetry collections, including Eva: Voices of an Imaginary Poet (Vakhikon Editions, 2023); Dwelling (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016); and Bright Body (White Pine Press, 2011). She is the translator of Portrait Before Dark by Liana Sakelliou (St. Julian Press, 2022).
Barnstone has received multiple awards and fellowships, including fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Anderson Center for the Peforming Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
A retired professor of English and creative writing at the University of Missouri, Barnstone was the state poet laureate of Missouri from 2016 to 2019.