Costas Constantinou was born in Nicosia. He studied at the University of Vienna and, since his return to Cyprus, he has been working as a journalist and columnist for newspapers, television, radio and magazines. He currently works with Offsite.com.cy while at the same time he is the Cyprus correspondent of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) as well as the Athens-based newspapers TA NEA and To Vima and the English-language site tovima.com.