Lena Kallergi was born in Athens and grew up in Nea Artaki, on the island of Euboea.
She has written the poetry books “Perissevei ena Ploio” (Gavriilidis, 2016), which was awarded by the “Poets’ Circle” and was shortlisted for the Greek State Poetry Awards, and “Kipoi stin Ammo” (Gavriilidis, 2010), for which she was awarded the “Maria Polydouri” prize. She participated in the collective, experimental poetry books Omada Apo Poiisi (Gavriilidis, 2010) and Omada Apo Poiisi II: Yper Oneirias (Gavriilidis, 2012). Her poems and translations have been included in print and online literary magazines both in Greece and abroad.
She has translated poetry by Giacomo Leopardi (I Nychta Apomenei, Gavriilidis, 2013), Luis Cernuda, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Marianne Moore, Robert Duncan, Alfonsina Storni, and others.