Aristea Papalexandrou (b. 1970) is a Greek poet and essayist. She has published six poetry collections: Two Dreams Ago (2000), Once Elsewhere (2004), Songbirds (2008), Underground (2012), It’s Overtaking Us (2015; Petros Haris Prize of the Academy of Athens, 2017), and Night Library (2020). In 2025, a collected edition of her poetry, On the Whole of Eva: 2000–2020, was published by Enypnio Editions. It’s Overtaking Us was also published in the United States as a bilingual edition (Fomite Press, 2020), translated by Philip Ramp. In 2021, she received her PhD with honours from the Athens School of Fine Arts with a dissertation on the reception of Greek women poets in the last quarter of the 20th century, part of which was developed into a two-volume study published by Enypnio Editions under the title Gathering the Shells of Their Dithyrambs: 1974–2000: References, Judgments, and Criticism on the Poetry of Greek Women. She has also edited and written the introduction to an anthology of the poet Maria Polydouri within the “Takis Sinopoulos” publishing programme. Her seventh poetry collection, The Sex of Others, is forthcoming in 2026 from Kastaniotis Editions. She lives in Athens.
