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 attended 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: A Filmmaker’s Handbook (dancing girl press, 2017), The Summer Flood Came Home, and The Picture Show (both from Another New Calligraphy, 2016). Her poems can be found in Columbia Poetry Review, New American Writing, Bombay Gin, The Recluse, Lungfull!, Tarpaulin Sky Press, The Brooklyn Rail, and BlazeVOX, among others. Currently, Stefania is a Grant & Contract Administrator through the Office of Research Administration at the University of Maine.