{"id":2,"date":"2018-08-19T21:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T21:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T10:32:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2\" class=\"elementor elementor-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-17b4c1fc elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"17b4c1fc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5bb4cbf\" data-id=\"5bb4cbf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13836f97 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13836f97\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eratoioannou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/portrait_1-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"portrait_1\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Erato Ioannou<\/strong><\/span> is a writer from Cyprus. Since the publication of her first book <em>Cats Have it All<\/em> (Armida, 2004) her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies around the world. In 2019 her short story \u201cDeserted\u201d was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The short story is included in her most recent collection <em>Not in the Ornamental Teapot<\/em> (2020). The collection has been translated in Greek and Spanish. Erato served as Assistant Editor-in-Chief at <em>In Focus<\/em>, the literary journal of the Cyprus PEN. She is the founder and Chair of Room for Art a cultural organization based in Nicosia, established to support the arts and artists in Cyprus and beyond (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roomforart.eu\">www.roomforart.eu<\/a>). Erato lives in Nicosia with her husband and their two children and cats, forever juggling the demands of motherhood, her work, and of her creative endeavors.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erato Ioannou is a writer from Cyprus. Since the publication of her first book Cats Have it All (Armida, 2004) her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies around the world. In 2019 her short story \u201cDeserted\u201d was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/?page_id=2\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PabYGy-2","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eratoioannou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}