Henry Walters, a poet and teacher, was born in Chicago in 1984 and grew up in Clinton, Michigan. After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in Latin and Greek, he lived as a falconer’s apprentice in Ireland and a beekeeper’s assistant in Sicily before returning to the United States, where he has worked as a seasonal biologist, postal carrier, census-taker, gardener, carpenter, baseball coach, actor, teacher, playwright, and birding guide. His first book, Field Guide A Tempo, was a finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A second collection of poems will be published by The Waywiser Press in 2022. He is also the translator, from Italian, of Enrico Testa's prize-winning collection Ablativo. He lives in New Hampshire with his young family, a hive of bees, and a hawk. He is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the Nashua MBA program.
Iris Vasileiadou is a Doctoral candidate at Hellenic American University, where she also earned her MA in Applied Linguistics magna cum laude. Her research interests include intercultural communication and political and media discourse, as well as gender in communities of practice. Iris has worked as an EFL/ESL teacher in Greece and the U.K. at various language schools and since 2014, she has been working at Hellenic American Union as an EFL instructor in its English Language Program. She is a certified Cambridge and Michigan examiner for B2 and C2 CEFR levels. Iris has been involved in various projects for the Center for Applied Linguistics and Language Studies, such as material development for writing/speaking seminars for ESL learners, special courses on extensive reading for ESL learners, and teacher training seminars of how to use different technological tools. She has also developed testing items for the STYLE exam, and has trained oral and written examiners for Hellenic American University’s STYLE and ABLE exams. She is currently an adjunct faculty member teaching in the M.A. in Applied Linguistics program.
Jenny Zimianitou holds a Diploma in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language from Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA, and a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from Hellenic American University, New Hampshire, USA. She has been involved in English language teaching for over 15 years both as a teacher and teacher educator. She has been involved in writing and editing projects and has given presentations and written articles on issues related to English language teaching. Ms. Zimianitou has also attended a number of seminars and conferences in Greece and abroad and has served on the TESOL Greece Board as vice chairperson.
Nikos Katris is a certified Translator. He holds an MSc in Multilingual Computing and Localization with First Class Honors from the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. From 2003-2008 he studied Translation (Bachelor’s) in the Ionian University of Corfu. He has extensive experience with translating texts from English into Greek and German into Greek. He is a certified CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tools trainer.
George Xoulogis is an award-winning composer who has scored and orchestrated over 40 films, including two which premiered at the Festival de Cannes in 2013 and 2014. He has also composed the music for an American RPG Video Game, the TV Show Short Cuts for Channel 13 in Australia and numerous other TV and branding projects for worldwide known brands such as TEDx, Amazon, Vimeo, Samsung and illy Coffee. In 2014 he was nominated for "Best European Soundtrack" in Cologne, Germany. George has a Master’s in Film Music Composition from the Danish National Academy of Music and a Bachelor and MA in Musicology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as Diplomas of Harmony, Counterpoint, Byzantine Music, Fugue and Orchestration. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Music at the National Kapodestrian University of Athens (2019). He is the founder and CEO of Scapetunes Ltd, a Music Production Company in London, UK, and currently teaches History of Music at the European University of Cyprus (Nicosia) while working as a Counselor in the Interconnection Office of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens with the European Union. Mr. Xoulogis is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in BM program.