Stella Beratlis

Poet

Modesto , CA
California US
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Author's Bio

Stella Beratlis is the author of Dust Bown Venus and Alkali Sink. She grew up in a second-generation Greek-American family in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Harbor Review, Penumbra, Song of the San Joaquin, In-Posse Review, California Quarterly, and elsewhere, as well as in the anthologies The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Streets, 2020). She is coeditor of the collection More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (Quercus Review Press, 2011) and served as the poet laureate of Modesto from 2016-2020. Beratlis is a librarian in Modesto, CA.

Author photo by Jeremy Center.

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Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Street Press, 2020)
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More Than Soil, More Than Sky: The Modesto Poets (CreateSpace, 2011)
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The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010)
Books:
Dust Bowl Venus (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2021)
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Alkali Sink (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2015)
Prizes won: 

Alkali Sink 2016 nominee for Northern California Book Award in poetry. 

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Feminist, Greek American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Greek
Born in: 
Livermore
Raised in: 
Pleasanton, CA
California
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Last update: Nov 07, 2021