Meet the two candidates from Greece who have been selected to participate in the 2024/2025 Ulysses' Shelter 3 residency programme.

Danae Sioziou (b.1987) was raised in Germany and Greece. She studied English, European History and Cultural Management. Her books to date include her first poetry collection Useful Children Games (2016, Antipodes Editions) which was awarded both the State Literary Prize for New Authors and Writers’ Society “Yannis Varveris” Prize for Young Authors. Her second poetry collection Probable Landscapes (2021, Antipodes Editions) was shortlisted for the National Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages, anthologized (e.g., by Karen Van Dyck in Austerity Measures, 2016), published in acclaimed journals and newspapers nationally and internationally (including World Literature Today, Harlequin Creature, The Ilanot Review, NYRB and Brooklyn Rail, among others) and presented at numerous festivals and other events in Greece and abroad (including Kalk Literary Festival in Cologne, Druskininkai Poetic Fall in Lithuania, Struga Poetry Festival in Northern Macedonia, Leipzig Book Fair and Rotterdam Poetry Festival). Both her books have been translated to German and published by Parasitenpresse Editions. In summer 2021 she was a fellow  in Villa Ruffieux, Switzerland. She co-organises Purple Medusas Festival, an interdisciplinary festival with a focus on literature and gender. She is a member of Book History Lab at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a member of Versopolis. She has translated Susan Sontag, modern American poetry, Afroamerican poetry, Aboriginal poetry and modern German poetry. Her most recent translation is Susan Sontag’s book “On Women”. In July 2024 she will participate at the Medellin Poetry Festival. Her third poetry collection Letters will be published in 2024 by Antipodes Editions. She is based in Athens and works as a cultural manager and educator.

Ioanna Lioutsia was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1992. She is a PhD researcher at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese, writing her thesis on Performance art in the Balkans and its political dimensions. She holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Directing (Theatre Department, AUTh, 2018), a BA in Acting (Contemporary Theatre Drama School, 2017), and a BA in History & Archaeology with a specialization in the History of Art (AUTh, 2014). She has written the following books: Wide Vowels and Bitten Consonants (poetry, 2022), 12 Short Plays for 19 World Days (for use in primary school, 2021), Silence in Two Spaces (poetry, 2019), Arrythmias (poetry, 2016), Conversations on Do(n’t) Major (poetry, 2014). She has translated two plays by Henrik Ibsen into Greek: Norma, or A Politician’s Love (2020) and St. John’s Eve (2022). She also writes theatrical plays. Her play First We Take Manhattan Then We Take Berlin was shortlisted in Berliner Festspiele's competition (2019), and she has won 2nd place in the playwriting competition of the State Theatre of Northern Aegean for the play Beware of Loneliness and People (2014). She is a co-creator of street writers’ group “grafoules” and a member of the organizing team of the interdisciplinary festival on gender and literature “Mov Medouses”. She has been active as a performance artist since 2013 and has received 3rd place in the Performance Art category at the Florence Biennale 2021 for her piece Every Day is a Woman’ s Day. She works as an actress, director, dramatist and Drama in Education facilitator.