Yannis Stiggas was born in Athens in 1977. He studied medicine. He has published three poetry books: The Vagrancy of blood, 2004 Gavrilidis ed., Vision will start again, 2006 Kedros ed. (which was nominated for the 2007 poetry award of literary magazine "Diavazo"), An Even Wound, 2009 Kedros ed. He has participated in Athens Biennial 2007, 2009 and Thesaloniki Biennial 2009. His poems appear in poetry magazines, have been included in anthologies and have been translated in English, French, Italian, and Bulgarian.

…..startles with his maturity, clarity and force of his imagery, the sharpness of his rhythms. Having absorbed negation and protest, Stigas is taking notes on how to renew our way of looking. Within his dynamic utterance abstract and material, internal and external, light and darkness are constantly integrated pushing poetry to the limit, send it to “gun its machine to the death round” 

Titika Dimitroulia, (literary critic), Kathimerini newspaper 

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