About me
Henriette Lazaridis is the author of Last Days in Plaka (a Good Morning America Buzz pick), Terra Nova (which the New York Times called “ingenious”), and The Clover House (a Boston Globe bestseller). A first-generation Greek/American, she earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. After receiving her Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania, she went on to teach English literature at Harvard for ten years. Her essays and articles have been published in Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, and elsewhere. She is co-founder of Galiot Press, an innovative new publishing venture, and runs the Krouna Writing Workshop in northern Greece. An avid athlete, Henriette writes about athletic and creative challenges at The Entropy Hotel on Substack.
