Yiannis Antiochos

Yannis Antiochos is a poet and translator. He was born in Athens in 1969. He grew up and lives in Piraeus. He holds an MBA and an MSc from the Medical School of the University of Athens, specialising in Intensive Care Units.

With Ikaros, he has published the poetry collections *He, the Lower Sky* (2019) [2020 State Poetry Prize], *Dissolution* (2017), *Exhalations* (2014) and *Inhalations* (2009).

He has translated works by T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton and Anna Akhmatova, and has contributed to various literary journals, publishing poems, essays and translations (ANTI, Index, Poetry, Dekata, Delear, Mandragoras, Poetix).