Vasilis Manousakis is a writer, translator, mental health counselor, and university instructor.
He has taught or given lectures in universities in Greece, England, the USA, Australia and Cyprus.
In November 2020 he became a faculty member of New York Writers Workshop.
He has worked as a part-time faculty member of the American College of Greece (Deree), where he introduced and taught Creative Writing seminars.
Since October 2023 he teaches in the University of Patras, where he is now a member of the permanent teaching staff of the Foreign Language Unit.
He writes and publishes poetry and short prose in Greek and English. His last book is Tango in Blue Nights, Pigi Pubs (2024).
He translates and publishes poetry and short prose in Greece and abroad, while he also specializes in Audiovisual Translation and has worked for platforms, such as Netflix, Amazon και Disney+ and studios, such as Universal, Paramount και ΗΒΟ.
The thorough application of psychoanalytic approaches on literary characters has led him to postgraduate studies in psychology and he currently works privately as a Mental Health Counselor, specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mentoring for students and young adults.
