Elena Maroutsou was born in Athens in 1967. She studied history at the School of Philosophy of Athens and did her postgraduate degree in literature and fine arts at Reading University, England. She has worked in photography and collage. Obscene orchids, her fifth book, was nominated for Anagnostis Awards, the Academy of Athens Ouranis Award as well as the National Prize for Short-Stories. Ιn 2009, her novel Between the train and the platform received the Athens Prize for Literature by ((De)kata magazine. Her novella The meaning had been translated as a translation exercise in stylistics from Greek to German.

Reading Greece: Elena Maroutsou on the Synergy of Text and Image in Literature and the Role of Art as a Reflection Reality