Born in Trieste,[1] she grew up in the city of Madrid, Spain, where she spent a lot of time in a pressing plant where her father worked.
Stavro also spent a large portion of her childhood reading literature classics, everything from Borges to Paul Auster to Aldous Huxley to Raymond Carver to John Berger, "all these authors have been my first and best teachers and this is why I now love to write about design.
[3] Stavro wasn't introduced to graphic design until the 80's, where she visited a friend who "had every single issue of Fabien Baron's Interview magazine."
In 2005 she co- founded Studio Astrid Stavro, with Pablo Martín, specialising in typography and editorial design.
Astrid Stavro is a member of a group called International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD).