Anastasios Mihalopoulos is a Greek/Italian writer living in Fredericton, NB. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of New Brunswick. He received his MFA in poetry from the Northeast Ohio MFA (NEOMFA) consortium and his B.S. in both chemistry and English from Allegheny College. He is a coeditor of the Ammonite Review.

He was awarded scholarships to attend the 2026 Deep Winter Writers Residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Juniper Writing Institute, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the Banff Centre’s 2024 Late Winter Writers Residency. He has also attended the Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki | Thasos and the 2023 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

His manuscript, Still, Sometimes, Shipwreck, was a finalist for the 2025 Alice James Award and the Black Lawrence Press 2022-2023 Immigrant Writing Series. He has had several poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poem “Odysseus’ Apology to Laertes” was selected as the winner of the 2024 Prism Review Poetry Prize and his short story “The Music of Olena Xiphias” was a runner-up for the 2024 Driftwood Press Adrift Short Story Contest. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Scientific American, Ninth Letter, Pithead Chapel, Fairy Tale Review, Cider Press Review, PRISM International, and elsewhere.

In his free time, he enjoys hiking, skiing, and joyous conversation with family and friends.