Aristea Papalexandrou was born in Hamburg in 1970. She has published six books of poetry: Dio onira prin (Two Dreams Ago, 2000), Allote allou (Once, Elsewhere, 2004), Odika ptina (Songbirds, 2008), Ypogeios (Underground, 2012), Mas propserna (It’s Passing Us By, 2015) Nychterini Vivliothiki (Night Library, 2020). She has studied music and Medieval and Modern Greek Literature. She works as an editor. For her last book, It’s Passing Us By, she had honored by the Academy of Athens, in December 2017.