Gail Holst-Warhaft

Gail Holst-Warhaft has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, writer, and academic. In the 1970s, while carrying out research for two books about Greek music, she performed as a keyboard-player with Greece’s leading composers, including Mikis Theodorakis. She is an adjunct professor in at Cornell University where she directs a program in Mediterranean Studies. Among her many publications are Road to Rembetika, Theodorakis: Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music, Dangerous Voices: Women’s Laments and Greek Literature, and The Cue for Passion: Grief and its Political Uses. She has published a translations of Aeschylus, and of a number of Greece's modern poets and prose writers, most recently the Collected Poems of Nikos Kavadias. Her first collection of poems, Penelope’s Confession, is due to be published by Cosmos Books later this year.