Karen Van Dyck's books include Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, and the co-edited Norton anthology, The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present. Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in The Paris Review, The Guardian, LARB, Poiitiki and Tender. She is founding director of Hellenic Studies at Columbia University where she teaches courses on translation, gender and Modern Greek literature.