Helen Bournas-Ney was born in Ikaria, Greece, and grew up in New York City. She has a background in Comparative Literature, has taught writing at Hunter College and NYU, and has served as director of the Learning Center at SUNY Farmingdale. Ms. Bournas-Ney was the recipient of the Anaïs Nin Award for her work on Rimbaud and George Seferis, and her poetry has been published in the Cumberland Poetry Review and the New Hampshire College Journal.