Raised in Lowell, Massachusetts to Greek-born parents, Katsarou has worked in film and television production in France and Greece. She wrote and directed the award-winning 35mm short film, Fruitlands 1843, about the Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Bronson Alcott. She co-edited and wrote the introduction to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, published by Ragged Sky Press in 2009. She currently curates the Panoply Books Reading Series in Lambertville, NJ. Vasiliki Katsarou holds an MFA in filmmaking from Boston University and an A.B. in comparative literature from Harvard. She lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey with her family and a dachshund named Melville.