Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949,Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing atBrandeis University since 1995.

Born and raised on the island ofSyros, Broumas secured a fellowship through theFulbright program to study in the United States at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. There, she earned her bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from theUniversity of Oregon.^[1]

After earning this degree, Broumas co-founded and taught at Freehand, Inc., a school inProvincetown, Massachusetts for female writers and artists. The school disbanded in 1987.

Broumas has worked in the creative writing programs at several universities, including the University of Idaho and Goddard College.^[1] She currently is the Professor Emerita of the Practice of English at Brandeis University.^[2]

Her first collection of poems,Beginning with O, was considered groundbreaking in its depiction of explicit lesbian sexuality.^[1] Broumas was selected byStanley Kunitz for theYale Younger Poets Series^[3] in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award^{[citation needed]}. Other honors have included aGuggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from theNational Endowment for the Arts.

• Beginning with O (Yale, 1977).
• Soie Sauvage (Copper Canyon Press, 1979).
• Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon Press, 1983).
• WithJane Miller:Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan, 1985).
• Perpetua (Copper Canyon Press, 1989).
• WithT. Begley: Sappho’s Gymnasium (Copper Canyon Press, 1994).
• Rave: Poems, 1975-1999 (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).

• What I Love: Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1986).
• The Little Mariner by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1988).
• Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press,1998).

• 1949 births
• Living people
• 20th-century Greek poets
• Brandeis University faculty
• Greek lesbian writers
• Lesbian poets
• Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners
• Greek LGBTQ poets
• People from Ermoupoli
• Greek expatriates in the United States
• American LGBTQ poets
• University of Oregon alumni
• American women poets
• Greek women poets
• 20th-century American poets
• 20th-century American women writers
• Lesbian academics
• American lesbian writers

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