Antonis Tsirikoudis was born in Northern Greece on 'World Poetry Day', but only publishes fiction. He is the author of two books. When you least expect it is a collection of short stories, that has been translated into Spanish (Creative Europe Program). He recently had a novel published under the title Friday to Monday.

Antonis is a passionate traveller and has lived in Australia and Estonia. The past seven years he has been teaching literature and philosophy at the European School of Heraklion, Crete. Antonis speaks English, Spanish and Russian and is allergic to flags and tags.