Stephanos Stephanides is Associate Professor in modern literary studies at the University of Cyprus. His research and writing activities mainly focus on post-colonial literature, anthropology and literature, and translation studies. He obtained his Ph.D. (1981) at the University of Cardiff, Wales. He taught at the University of Guyana where he developed an interest in colonial and post-colonial literature (1978-85). He is a qualified translator of Modern Greek, Spanish and Portuguese into English. He served as a judge for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), 2000. He was awarded a one-year Commonwealth Academic Fellowship and was Research Fellow in Translation Studies, Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick (1995). He was Awarded First Prize in 1989 Poetry Competition of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, and nominated for 1989 Center for Anthro-Journalism Award (Washington D.C.) for Anthro-Journalistic Excellence for documentary film Hail Mother Kali. He is a member of the European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) and Vice-president of the Cyprus branch of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

These series of poems explore his recent return to the north of Cyprus.