Sarah Kafatou is a writer, painter and musician. She has been a Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard and has taught American literature at Harvard and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Her poems, essays and translations have been published in Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and other journals, and her translations of plays by Sophocles and Euripides are “on the shelf” for possible production at the National Theatre in London. One-person exhibitions of her paintings have been held and the Melnikow Gallery in Germany and the Municipal Gallery of the City of Heraklion in Crete, and a full-color catalogue of her work has been published by the City of Heraklion.