Maroula Blades is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in Berlin. She was awarded 2nd place for the 2023 German Amadeu Antonio Prize for her interdisciplinary educational project, “Stones in Symphony.” In June 2023, she was awarded a novella in-progress grant from the UK Society of Authors Foundation and the K. Blundell Trust, and in April 2023, a project grant from the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature. She was selected for the 2021 INITIAL Special Grant from the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2020, Chapeltown Books released her story collection, The World in an Eye. Her works have appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Bacopa Literary Review, Mukoli, Ake Review, Abridged Magazine, The London Reader,and others. Blades gives bilingual poetry workshops in Berlin schools.