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Despoina Kemeridou

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Despoina Kemeridou is a multi-genre author, poet, and graphic designer. She started writing in 2009 and immediately knew this was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

Kemeridou was born in 1996 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Midwifery at the International University of Greece. Alongside writing, Kemeridou likes reading, photography, sketching, and painting.

She started self-publishing in 2018 and has since self-published three books. Currently, she is working on a dark fantasy retelling of a mixture between the myth of Hades and Persephone and the Beauty and the Beast fairytale.

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If you like your poetry drenched in darkness and sorrow or have enjoyed any of my previous dark poetry collections, you may enjoy WILTED FLOWERS! It's a collection of 50 poems that will be released on August 6th, 2025.

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