Eleni Kefala

A poet and academic from Cyprus. She has authored three poetry books, four monographs, one edited volume, and several refereed articles. Her monograph The Conquered was awarded the 2022 Edmund Keeley Prize. She is also the recipient of the State Prize for Poetry in her home country for her book Time Stitches (2014). The English translation of Time Stitches by Peter Constantine (Deep Vellum 2022) won the Elizabeth Constantinides Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association and was a New York Times Globetrotting Pick. She served on the jury of the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Eleni's research offers cultural analyses of modernity across different periods, cultures, and disciplines. She was born in Athens, grew up in Cyprus, studied in Nicosia and Cambridge, and currently makes her home in Scotland, where she teaches Latin American and comparative literature at the University of St Andrews.