Publications
New Southern Harmonies, a collection of twelve short stories by four writers in Upstate South Carolina (Scott Gould, Rosa Shand, George Singleton, and Deno Trakas). Winner of Best Short Fiction award by Independent Publisher.
Hub City Press, 1998. http://www.hubcity.org/bookshop/
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human & puny, a collection of twenty poems by Deno Trakas and twenty monochrome watercolors by his sister Irene Trakas.
Hub City Press, 2001. http://www.hubcity.org/bookshop/
All four of Deno Trakas’s grandparents were Greek immigrants who settled in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Because Memory Isn’t Eternal tells their story, the quintessential story of Greeks who came to the United States for economic opportunity, as well as the story of subsequent generations of Greek Americans.
Hub City Press, 2010. http://www.hubcity.org/bookshop/
Messenger from Mystery, a novel about a young man who teaches American and Middle Eastern students at the University of South Carolina and gets caught up in the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-1980–a story of love, politics, terrorism, and heroism.
University of South Carolina Press/Story River Books, 2017. www.sc.edu/uscpress
The Admiral of Smyrna, a novel in progress based on the true story of Asa Jennings, an unassuming little man who worked for the YMCA in Smyrna, Turkey in 1922 and rescued 200,000-300,000 Greek and Armenian refugees from the Greek-Turk war and the fire that destroyed Smyrna.