Born in 1979 in Patras, Greece, Elena Polygeni is a poet, actress, and musician. She has published four books of poetry: Seconds of Alive Moments (Gavrielides, 2017), The Land of Paradoxical Things (To Kendri, 2014), My Sorrow is a Woman (Poema, 2012), and Letters on a Blackboard (Dodoni, 2009). Poems and essays of her have been published in various literary anthologies and magazines. Her poetry has been translated into Swedish and English.