Sky of lead

Iphigenia Theodorou was born in Thessaloniki and is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied artistic bookbinding at the La Cambre School of Fine Arts in Brussels and attended paper conservation seminars at the School of Conservation and Bookbinding in Ascona, Switzerland. She has participated in group exhibitions of artistic bookbinding. She taught Greek, as a volunteer, at the National School in Vienna and at the Berlitz International School in Bonn and Cologne. As the long-term partner of a Greek diplomat, she lived in countries across Europe and Asia, drawing on her experiences in her books. In 1997, her collection of short stories *Chrysos, Livani and Smyrna* was published by Ikaros. This was followed by the books *Melech Means Angel* (Hellenic Letters, 2001; Patakis Publications, 2015), which was shortlisted for the DiaVazo magazine novel prize; Language of Marble (Hellenic Letters, 2005; Diaplasi, 2018); The Taste of the Desert (Patakis Publications, 2012), which has been translated into Arabic and is published by Sefsafa in Cairo, and The Little That Ends (Patakis Publications, 2021). He has a daughter and currently lives in Athens.