Danae Sioziou ((Δανάη Σιώζιου) was born in 1987 and raised in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Karditsa, Greece. She received her BA in English Literature from the University of Athens and then pursued an MSc in Cultural Management at Panteion University and another MSc in European History at the University of Athens. She completed her internship at the Free University of Berlin. The poetry collection Useful Children’s Games (Χρήσιμα παιδικά παιχνίδια, 2016) is her first and was published by Antipodes Editions. She was awarded the Jiannis Varveris’ Prize for Young Writers and was shortlisted for the Anagnostis Young Writers’ Prize and the Women of the Year Prize. Her poems have been translated in six languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Croatian). She participates in various artistic projects and works as a foreign language teacher. She is currently based in Athens.