Paschalis Nikolaou was born in Alexandroupolis, northern Greece, in 1979. He completed his MA and PhD in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, and is a lecturer in Literary Translation at the Ionian University in Corfu, where he lives. He has published articles on aspects of translation studies as well as reviews, translations and poems in magazines such as The London Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation and The Wolf. He is the co-editor of Translating Selves: Experience and Identity between Languages and Literatures (with Maria-Venetia Kyritsi, 2008), and reviews editor of the translation journal mTm.