Pavlina Marvin was born in Athens in 1987, but grew up in Hermoupolis, Syros. She studied Ηistory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is writing her PhD thesis on Greek national book policy. She was a co-publisher and co-editor of Teflon poetry magazine (2008-2011). She studied poetry in the biennial workshop of the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation (2007-2009). Her first book, "Histories from all around my world", was published by Kichli Publishing (2017) and was awarded by the Hellenic Authors Association with the prize «Yannis Varveris». As a writer and performer, she has been invited to participate in a range of interdisciplinary arts projects and festivals, in Greece and abroad. Part of her work has been translated in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Bengali and Serbo-Croatian.