Eleni Kefala

Eleni Kefala is a Greek Cypriot poet and academic who grew up in Cyprus, holds degrees from the University of Cyprus and the University of Cambridge, and currently serves as a Senior Lecturer or Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She has published poetry collections including *Memory and Variations* (2007), shortlisted for the Diavazo Literary Prize, and *Time Stitches* (2013), which won the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus; her monograph *The Conquered* received the 2022 Edmund Keeley Prize. She has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and the AHRC, and translates Spanish American literature into Greek.