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Konstantia Sotiriou is a Cypriot writer, journalist, and employee of the Press and Information Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus. She is the author of three novels and several short stories.

Her first novel Ayesha Goes on Holiday (2015) brought her popularity in Greece and Cyprus and the following year was awarded the highest prize of the Athens Literary Prize. Her next novel, Earthly Voices (2017), was shortlisted for the Cyprus Literary Award. The writer's latest novel, The Bitter Land, won the Cyprus Literary Prize in 2019, and the short story The Rites of Death, based on this novel, won the Commonwealth Prize for Best Short Story in the same year. In his works, Sotiriou tries to comprehend the tragic events of the recent history of Cyprus - the occupation of its northern part by Turkey, to see the different "truths" of the civil conflict and what lies behind the construction of such truths, to address the shadows on both sides with words of reconciliation in order to open the eyes to the mutual wrongs and injustices that have turned the island of love into an island of hate.