The sea kissed you and sent you to me To take you back to the smiles of my childhood I had nothing else to offer
Read MoreAuthor: Maria Karametou
Maria Karametou was born in Athens, Greece. She is a mixed media artist, writer, and professor with an international exhibition record that includes museum and gallery shows in Germany, Greece, Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, and Korea, among many others. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the Katzen Museum, AU, Washington, D.C. She is the recipient of several awards, such as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, the First Prize in the Maryland Biennial, and her work is a many public and museum collections. As a writer, Karametou received the Second Prize in the Washington Metropolitan Area Short Story Competition, and her story was published in the Bethesda Magazine. Other publications involve inclusion in a poetry anthology, numerous artist statements, artist books, and essays. Most recently, she was invited to present her poems at the D.C. Embassy of Greece. Her website is mariakarametou.com