Thodoris Gkonis works in theatre. He writes novels, poems and lyrics for songs. He anthologies and adapts literary texts, travelogues and testimonies which he also directs in theatre. At this period of time he is artistic director in Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kavala and in Philippi Festival.
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Elena Maroutsou was born in Athens in 1967. She has studied History at the School of Philosophy (University of Athens) and has had her M.A. in Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Reading. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing and she writes book reviews, which appear regularly in
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Isidoros Zourgos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1964. He studied Pedagogy and served as teacher in the Elementary Education. In the past, he had collaborated with multiple magazines publishing poetry and prose, as well as bibliographic reviews. He had also engaged with literature
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Elsa Korneti was born in Munich, Germany, but raised in Greece. After her studies in Finance in Greece and in Germany, she worked as a journalist. Collaborating with literary magazines she publishes poems, essays, book reviews, translations, short stories. Her poems and short stories
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Tefcros Michaelides, a Cyprus native, lives in Athens, Greece. He has studied in Paris, France and holds a PhD in Mathematics from Pierre et Marie Curie University.
He has published original work on the interaction between mathematics and literature from antiquity to the modern era, on the
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Giorgos Lillis was born in Bielefield, Germany in 1974, and raised in Athens. In 1996 he went back to Bielefield where he still lives and works. In 1999 he published his first poetry collection Το δέρμα της νύχτας [Τhe skin of night] (Odos Panos editions). Since then
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He studied Greek Philology and Classics in Athens and Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He earned his Ph.D. in Classics from NUI Galway, working on intertextuality in Late Greek Epic and its digital representation. Some of his poems have been included in anthologies and translated into
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Leonidas Karakoglou was born in 1952 in Chania. He studied at the National Metsovion Polytechnic School. He lives in Chania. He has published nine poetry collections, two novels, a historic book and an autobiography. Many of his poems have been set in music by Greek composers. His collection, Almost
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Pandelis Boukalas (1957) is a writer, translator and journalist. He has published eight books of poetry, one volume of books reviews and two volumes of his by-line articles in Kathimerini. He has translated Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, as well as funerary inscriptions,
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Kyriaki-Koula Adaloglou studied Modern Greek Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She obtained an MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Language Teaching from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She was a member
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Education
Bachelor of Arts (BA Aesthetics, History, French), London, 1974
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil Art History and Theory), Essex, 1988
Current Position
Director of Studies, Vakalo Art and Design College, Athens, Greece
Visiting Research Fellow University of Derby, UK
Professional Career
Teacher,
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Makis Tsitas was born in Giannitsa in 1971. He majored in journalism and worked for several radio stations in Thessaloniki. Since 1994 he has lived in Athens where he works in publishing. He has served as senior editor for the literary magazine Periplous (1994-2005), and was the co-publisher and director
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He studied History and Archaeology in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bari. He received his master’s degrees in ancient literature from the Scuola Normale Superiore and in prehistoric archaeology from the University of Pisa. Doctor of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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Irini Rinioti was born in Athens in 1964. She studied in the Humanities Department of the Hellenic Open University [Studies in Greek Civilization], then completed her M.A. in Creative Writing at the same university.
She is a member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society, the Poets’ Circle
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Haris Psarras has published five poetry books. He has also co-edited two collective volumes and has contributed poems, essays, translations, and short stories to journals and edited collections. Translations of his work have appeared in anthologies and periodicals in Europe and
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