Apollo Papafrangou
Apollo Papafrangou is a graduate of the Mills College Creative Writing MFA program, and is the author of the novel Wings of Wax, published by Booktrope Editions in March, 2016, about a lonesome Oakland-based artist seeking to connect with his estranged father in Greece and learn the ways of the kamaki--the classic Med.... more
Apollo Papafrangou is a graduate of the Mills College Creative Writing MFA program, and is the author of the novel Wings of Wax, published by Booktrope Editions in March, 2016, about a lonesome Oakland-based artist seeking to connect with his estranged father in Greece and learn the ways of the kamaki--the classic Mediterranean ladies' man.
He is also the author of Concrete Candy, a short story collection published by Anchor Books, with French and Danish editions, when he was just 15 years old.
HBO Films optioned the movie rights to his novel The Fence, and his fiction has appeared in Quiet Lightning, the Simon & Schuster anthology, “Trapped,” and “Voices,” a collection of works by Greek writers published by Nine Muses Press, among other publications.
He attributes his passion for storytelling to being raised in a Greek-American household where the epics of his ancestors were combined with contemporary family lore. If he wasn’t an author, Apollo would be a singer-songwriter under the moniker Greek Lightning, wooing audiences with stormy R&B ballads.
Apollo lives in Oakland, CA.
