Stefania Irene Marthakis was born in Northwest Indiana just outside of Chicago. Stefania holds a BA in Poetry & Theatre from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in Poetry & Poetics from Naropa University (Boulder, CO). She interned and volunteered at The Poetry Project (NYC) and started her Ph.D. at The European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland and Valletta, Malta). Stefania is the author of Case Memory (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) as well as three chapbooks: The Summer Flood Came Home, The Picture Show (Another New Calligraphy, 2016), and A Filmmaker’s Handbook (dancing girl press, 2017). Her poems can be found in Columbia Poetry Review, New American Writing, Bombay Gin, The Recluse, Lungfull!, Tarpaulin Sky Press, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Currently, Stefania is a Grant & Contract Administrator through the Office of Research Administration at the University of Maine.