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Smaragdi Mitropoulou was born in Athens. She has studied history and archaeology
at the University of Athens and had postgraduate history studies at the University of
Cardiff, in Great Britain. She serves in secondary education. She is also a Creative
Writing graduate (Diploma in Creative Writing) from the Writers’ Bureau College
(Manchester, UK), and has studied theater writing at the International Theater
Institute and directing at the Foundation of Culture in Tinos island. She has received
awards in Greece and abroad for her poetry and prose. Also, she is Programme
Coordinator of Writers Capital International Foundation. So far, she has written
four books, which have been published and launched in Greece. One of them, “One
moment just an eternity”, has been translated into English and was published in 2020
by the English Ontime Books Publishing House. Her poetry has been translated into
Bengali, Chinese, and Taiwanese and published in online and print magazines in the
Philippines, China, and Taiwan.