James Papoutsis, Writer

James Papoutsis is a writer, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on the Greek diaspora.  His work has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.  In 2023 he became an Oxbelly Fellow and in 2025 he was a writing resident at Deer Lake in Burnaby, British Columbia.  He teaches in the English Department at York University in Toronto and divides his time between Toronto and his ancestral home in Greece.