Her poetry was translated into English, Russian and Italian.
[1] She translated work by Susan Sontag, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann into Greek.
[3] After high school she studied at a London secretarial school for a year, before returning to work as secretary to the Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis.
In 1960 she studied for four years at the Vakalo College of Art and Design.
[4] Isaia then lived on the island of Hydra for four years,[4] where she came to know Leonard Cohen.