Eurydice (the author's real name) Cambyses (aka Eurudice)was born on the island of Lesbos. At fifteen she ran off to Hollywood where, among other educational and cultural shocks, she learned to write in English.
Eurydice has been called the 'most compelling writer of sex in the English language.' In nonfiction, fiction, or poetry, her writing explores private yearnings and rituals of intimacy. 
Sexuality has been her subject matter and metaphor of choice since she first began to write. She is deeply interested in cultural disguise, the nakedness it covers, and misperceptions of reality. She is biased on the side of chaos and Eros, the chaos of Eros, against stasis and mimesis?and the bardic tradition, which is why her material echoes the spoken word and derives from taped conversations, transcribed confessions, and real-time events. Her overall project is to hone a language and a structure that can translate the physical feminine into discourse. Her narratives unfold in America primarily because she can study from a vantage of 3,000 years of culture an ideology that in 200 has managed to permeate and homogenize the world.Her writing is an act of transgression. One of the ways she keeps her writing as a form of protest is to make it unfilmable. She believes that potent literature should not be translatable into film. Continue as is with “Perhaps her least American..” Perhaps her least American creative trait is that she doesn't know how to answer the question, "Why write about an ordinary character?" Because English is not her first language, she can hear it as signs free from referents, and can use and abuse the vernacular without the learned sentimental fears and respect for rules that restrict her in her native voice. She is a Greek writer who chooses to write in a foreign tongue because in Greek her narrative is delicate and tentative, full of silences, trimmings, and hesitations; and she has chosen English because it is the Latin of the modern world. But she would happily write in any language except her own, as she believes that, like sex, writing is about losing control.
Language can never capture what the visual arts can show because visual arts undermine any pretense to referentiality. To be lost in a look is the power of the visual arts: a reversal of seeing. Visual arts convey not identity but intimacy; they make absence a presence and cannot be translated into another art form. The presence they achieve is always a reminder of absence—a gap, a lack, never to be overcome by gimmicky representation. The opposite of absence is not presence but completion. Completion suggests a finality that denies change, resists new ways of being, and carries with it the aroma of tyranny. Eurydice is comfortable with missing sense. She practices difference, absence, fluidity, passing presence, immanence and longing. She experiences any form of completion, any attempt at solidification of identity, any permanent sense of unity, as violence and authoritarianism.
Eurydice believes art must resist systematization and offer an alternative to efficiency, control, and the forming of average normalcies and foundations. So she switches artistic media in her quest for fluency and freedom.”
Her work has been widely exhibited, anthologized and published. She has published a book of poetry, the novel f/32, for which she received the Fiction Collective Two Best Fiction Award (in England it appeared under the title f/32: The Second Coming with Virago Press in 1993, in America it briefly became a Kasak Books pocket), and a book of nonfiction, Satyricon U.S.A.: A Journey Across The New Sexual Frontier, published with Scribner. Her books have been reviewed in Time, Newsweek, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The N.Y. Observer, Wired, and many other venues. She has a BA in creative writing from Bard College, an MA in creative writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MA in comparative literature and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University; she has taught creative writing at Brown University, lived and worked in India, been a staff investigative writer for Spin magazine. She lives in Miami, Manhattan, and the isle of Crete, and is raising a sunkissed daughter.
