Vana Manasiadis was born in Wellington in 1973 and completed a Master of Arts in creative writing at Victoria University in 2005. In-between times she has taught classics, drama and English, and lived in Athens, Paris and Bologna. She currently resides in Crete.

Plexis Periplexis -- Hook for a Tale -- Nostalgic Nestor -- Historic Istor -- Etymological Kefte -- King of Mycenae -- Hectic Hector -- Talking Tectonics -- Son of Chaos -- Metamorphic Paris -- The Illuminated Chronicle of Constantine Manasses -- Properties -- Tsamiko -- Known Mansions -- The Rock -- Island Hoppers -- Shed by the Tree -- Icarus -- The Apocrypha, or Tapes of Penthos -- The Argonaut -- Shoebox -- Vaso's Chronicles -- Elegy -- Epistrophe -- Ithaca Island Bay Leaves -- Penelope the Mythic -- Sophocles' Workshop -- The Saloni -- The Front Line -- Wakefield Park -- The Sewing Room -- Dixon Street -- Lexicon, Found Inbetween.