Pétros Golítsis (b. 1978 in Thessaloniki) is a poet, an essayist and a literary critic. Author of four volumes of verse, Paper’s memory (2009), The abrading of time (2013), The flesh of the temporary (2015) and Bursting with meat (2017), of seven volumes of essays on modern and contemporary poetry, and of two bilingual editions, The flesh of the temporary and other poems/Привремена кожа-Солун после Одисеја, (Greek, Serbo-Croatian) translated by M. Puslojić, YKC, Βelgrade, 2019, and The flesh of the temporary and other poems, translated by Y. Goumas, Romi publications, 2019. He has been awarded the International Poetry Prize Tudor Arghezi (2018) from the Writers’ Union of Romania, and the International Poetry Prize Povelja Morave (2019) from the Association of Writers of Serbia. He is also a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia. His poems are included in various anthologies and journals and have been published in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese and in Turkey, translated by Victor Ivanovici, Jose Antonio Moreno Jurado, Zdravka Mihailova, Crescenzio Sangiglio, Markku Pääskynen, Horia Garbea, etc. He has collaborated with the Swiss composer Jonas Kocher on his poetic composition The flesh of the temporary (2016). Since 2010 he has been a prolific columnist for various periodicals and newspapers. He has also translated Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas and Walt Whitman into Greek. He has graduated from the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), from the University of London (Birkbeck College), and from the University of Sheffield, where he read Economics, and Pedagogy. He is a Doctor of Philosophy (University of Sheffield) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy.