John Sakkis

John Sakkis is the author The Islands (forthcoming Nightboat Books) and Rude Girl (BlazeVOX Books), and with Angelos Sakkis he has translated three books by Athenian poet and multi-media artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis — "now, 1/3" and thepoem (BlazeVOX Books) Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press), awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation, and Chinese Notebook (Ugly Duckling Presse). The author of numerous chapbooks, pamphlets, mixtapes and ephemera, under the moniker BOTH BOTH he has curated/ edited various projects including: blog, reading series, and since 2005 a magazine. He Lives in Oakland.