Yannis Stigas was born in Athens in 1977. He studied medicine. He has published five poetry collections:The vagrancy of blood, 2004, Gavriilidis ed., Vision will start again, 2006, Kedros ed., An even wound, 2009, Kedros ed., Onwards to the booth, 2012, Mikri Arktos ed., I saw Rubik's cube eaten up, 2014 Mikri Arktos ed.His poems appear in poetry magazines, have been included in anthologies and have been translated in German, French, Swedish, Spanish, English, Serbian and Bulgarian. His first book The vagrancy of blood has been published in French under the title "Vagabondages du sang" by Les Vanneaux editions in 2012.