Vania Syrmou is a philologist with postgraduate studies in education and further studies in translation. Her work focuses on the teaching of language and literature, and she has presented and published related work at educational conferences and in philological journals. Her short stories and haiku have received distinctions in literary competitions and have been published in anthologies, literary blogs and journals. Her translations of English-language literature have been published by Bilieto Editions. She is also the author of the short-story collections “Terminal Station and Other Short Stories” (Bilieto, 2019) and “Camera Obscura” (Iolkos, 2023). She has attended photography seminars and workshops and has participated in 29 group photography exhibitions to date, as well as in photographic albums. Her photographs have received distinctions in Greek and international competitions.