John Tripoulas was born in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from Oberlin College and received an MD from Athens University Medical School. From 2009 until 2916 he served as the general surgeon on the Greek island of Ikaria and has worked as an attending surgeon at hospitals in Athens, Piraeus and Nafplion, Greece. His first collection of poems A Soul Inside Each Stone (Dos Madres Press) was published in 2016, and has been translated into Greek. He has translated a volume of poems by the Greek poet and Olympic medalist Demetrios Golemis (Cosmos Publishing Co.) Currently he is compiling his second collection of poems.