Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens, Greece.  She studied foreign languages and literature at the universities of Athens, Nice (France) and Geneva (Switzerland), where she graduated in 1962. She has received Ford Foundation Grants (1972 and 1975), was invited to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in the United States (1980-1981), during which time she lectured on Modern Greek Poetry and Nikos Kazantzakis at Harvard. She has subsequently lectured on other dimensions of modern poetry and given public readings of her poetry in English and in Greek in the United States, Mexico, and Europe.  She won the 1985 Greek National Poetry Award for the Greek version of Beings and Things on Their Own.