Elina Traiforou was born in Thessaloniki and raised in Kavala, Greece. She studied BA Film and Drama in Reading, UK and MA Screen Arts in Sheffield, UK. Since 2005 she has been living in Athens, Greece. She has published 5 poetry collections (one bilingual in English and Greek) and made 3 documentaries that have been shown on TV and at Greek festivals. In 2017 she started making collages. Since then she has also been creating animated collages, collage poems and taking photographs. She is also interested in the combination of poetic image and text. She has collaborated with artist Harley Cortez with a video made with her animated collages in combination with his music.