Dimitra Kolliakou (b. 1968) grew up in Athens. She studied classics at The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and obtained a PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. She taught theoretical linguistics at Newcastle University (1995-2010), before moving with her family to Paris, where she teaches English literature and civilisation at an international lycée. She has been awarded many prizes for her works of fiction; the Jim Wilson prize for first time author by the National Book Centre of Greece for her novel Το Μαγείο (The magic hole, Hestia Publishers, 2001), the National Academy of Greece award and the Athens Prize for Literature for her novel Θερμοκρασία Δωματίου (Room temperature, Patakis Publishers, 2006 ; 4th reprint October 2020) and the State Literary Award and the Anagnostis literary prize for Αλφαβητάρι Εντόμων (Insect Alphabet, Patakis Publishers, 2018). Her most recent book is the novel Καλυψώ (Calypso, Patakis Publishers, 2024). She regularly collaborates with the literary magazines Φρέαρ and Χάρτης.