Born and raised in Athens, Greece, paparouna [pavlos stavropoulos] currently resides in occupied Arapahoe and Cheyenne territory in so-called Colorado, USA, is a social and environmental justice educator, works in website management, writes queer speculative prose, translates mostly queer Greek literature into English, and daydreams about life as a marine mammal. An MFA Candidate in Translation and Fiction at Antioch—Los Angeles, paparouna was accepted into the 2018 Princeton Hellenic Translation Workshop, the 2018-2020 Lighthouse Book Project, the 2025 Bread Loaf Translators Conference, and the 2025 British Center for Literary Translation Summer School. They have been a guest fiction editor for beestung magazine, were the web editor for The Thought Erotic (currently on hiatus), and are the Lead Translation Editor (previously the Managing Editor for Content and Production) for Lunch Ticket. They have presented at numerous conferences and community events and have taught a variety of workshops in community and academic settings (CV available upon request). Their writing has been published in Progenitor, Asymptote, Exchanges, New Poetry in Translation (now World Poetry Review), Denver Quarterly, Timber, The Thought Erotic, Lunch Ticket, World Literature Today, and Κουίρ 2024: Βίωμα, τέχνη, θεωρία [Queer 2024: Lived experience, art, theory].