Aloe Sideri was born in Lixouri, Kefalonia in 1929. Her father, Haralambos Mataragas, was an accountant and her mother, Kalomoira Kouroukli, was a poet. She went to school in Lixouri and studied History, Archeology and English literature at the University of Athens. During the Resistance Movement she was a member of EPON. Her second name, Sideri, it’s her husband’s surname, with whom she has a daughter. From 1955 until 1985 she was teaching literature in private schools.
Her poetic work is mostly lyric, not too romantic, but immediate and punctual. She has also written prose and a collection of stories (“Tsang”, 1990) and a volume of comments (“The Lady with the Cat”, 1990), while she was very good on research and on essay writing. She has also translated ancient and Byzantine writers; moreover she introduced English, French and Italian writers. Among others she translated Herodotus, Aristotle, Heliodors, Lucian, Prokopious the Caesarean, Anna Komnini, Pseudo- Hippocrates, Michael Psello, The collections of the miracles of Saint Demetrious, the Archbishop John and Anonymous, Henry James, Truman Capote, Umberto Eco.
Aloe Sideri worked for several magazines, at the state radio and TV, and she  published some of her poetry and prose in several literary magazines.
She died in Athens in March, 8 2004, at the age of 75.