Eleni Gage was born in New York and lived there until she was almost three, when her family moved to Athens, Greece. After five years there, they settled in Massachusetts, where Eleni lived until she graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Folklore and Mythology, specializing in Modern Greek folklore. Now a freelance writer, Eleni has had articles appear in The New York Times, Travel+Leisure, InStyle, Elle, Parade, Real Simple, The American Scholar, and many other publications, and was the Beauty Editor of People magazine until leaving to start an MFA program at Columbia University in Fall, 2006. In 2005 her
first book, a travel memoir called North of Ithaka, was released by St. Martin's Press in the United States, Bantam in the U.K., DeBoekerij in Holland, and Platypus in Greece. Starting this Fall, she will be teaching academic writing to first-years at Columbia
University. She is currently working on her first novel.
