ELENI KEFALAis a poet and academic. She holds an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a BA from the University of Cyprus. Her monograph The Conquered won the 2022 Edmund Keeley Prize. She is also the recipient of the State Prize for Poetry in her home country for the book Time Stitches (available in English from Deep Vellum) and served on the jury of the2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.