Marialena Semitekolou

Marialena Semitekolou was born in 1973 and grew up in Piraeus. She studied Psychology at the University of Crete, where she obtained her PhD. She has taught courses in Psychology and Qualitative Methodology at the University of Crete and the University of Athens. She has also worked as a group facilitator and as a psychologist-researcher on programmes aimed at empowering socially vulnerable groups.

Her first book, Sundays in Summer (Ikaros 2018), was shortlisted for the State Short Story and Novella Award (2019), the Meni Koumantarea Prize (2019) from the Society of Writers, and the Debut Prose Writer Prize (2019) from Anagnostis magazine.