Eurydice
Eurydice lives in Miami, Manhattan, and Greece. She was born
on the island of Lesbos in Greece. At fifteen she ran off to
Hollywood where, among other educational and cultural shocks,
she learned to write in English. She has a BA in fine Arts from
Bard College, where she studied with Roy Lichtenstein, an MA
in creative writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder,
an MA in art history & literature from Brown University and
an MFA in creative writing from Brown University; she has been
a widely exhibited painter in Greece, an assistant professor
at Brown University, has lived and filmed two documentaries in
India, worked as a staff investigative reporter for "Spin" and "Gear"
magazines, has published a book of poetry, the novel "f/3",
for which she received the Fiction Collective Two Best Fiction
Award, the sequel The Second Coming' published with Virago Press,
and a book of nonfiction, Satyricon U.S.A.: A Journey Across
The New Sexual Frontier, published with Scribner. Her books have
been reviewed in Time, Newsweek, The Village Voice, The Washington
Post, The N.Y. Observer, and Wired.
Eurydice has been called the 'most compelling writer of
sex in the English language.' In nonfiction, fiction, poetry,
or art, her work explores private yearnings and rituals of
intimacy. Sexuality is her subject matter and metaphor of
choice. She is deeply interested in cultural disguise, and
misperceptions of reality. She is biased on the side of chaos
and Eros, the
chaos of Eros, the Furies, which is why her material derives
from taped conversations, transcribed confessions, and real-time
events. Her overall project is to hone a language and a structure
that can translate the physical feminine into discourse.
She has recently returned to her artistic roots using embroidery
as her medium of expression. Her fiber art connects her with
her ancestors & generations of silenced women for whom
she hopes to speak. She wants to bring embroidery into the
gallery space as legitimate powerful memorable art.
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