paparouna writes queer speculative prose and translates queer Greek literature into English. An MFA candidate in fiction and translation at Antioch University Los Angeles, paparouna also currently serves as the lead translation editor at Lunch Ticket. Their work has been published in Progenitor, Asymptote, Exchanges, New Poetry in Translation, Denver Quarterly, Timber, The Thought Erotic, Lunch Ticket, and in the Greek anthology Κουίρ 2024 [Queer 2024].