Broumas, Olga (1949– ), Greek‐born American poet. Broumas's first volume, Beginning with O (1977) was a winner in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Openly feminist and lesbian, her poetry explores both Greek myth and European fairy tales, further transforming some of Anne Sexton's Transformations of the most familiar Grimm tales, from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Cinderella’ to ‘Rumplestiltskin’ and ‘Snow White’. In ‘Sleeping Beauty’, for example, the narrator is awakened by another woman's ‘public kiss’; in ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, Broumas transforms the tale into a return to the mother, evading the obstetrician/wolf.
— Elizabeth Wanning Harries
