Anne Germanacos, together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete, and taught writing, literature, and Modern Greek. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her stories have appeared in, among other places, Black Warrior Review, Santa Monica Review, and, DIAGRAM. She was awarded the Holmes Award for emerging writers from Fourteen Hills. In the Time of the Girls is her first book.