A freelance writer and the author of the travel memoir North of Ithaka, which was released in the US in 2005 by St. Martin's Press, Eleni Gage has written about Greece for The New York Times, Travel+Leisure Magazine, The American Scholar, Town & Country, Elle, The New York Sun, and many other publications. She specialized in modern Greek folklore at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in Folklore and Mythology, and is now teaching expository writing at Columbia University and pursuing an MFA in Fiction from Columbia's School of the Arts. She recently completed her first novel.