Lena Kitsopoulou was born in Athens in 1971 and graduated from the Art Theater Drama School in 1994 and has since worked as an actress in the theater and the cinema. Her first collection of short stories, "Bats" (Kedros Publishers) came out in 2006 and won the Debut Author Prize of the Diavazo magazine.

Two more short story collections have followed since, "Big Roads" and "Fish Eye" (both from Metechmio Publications) as well as the novella "M.A.I.