John Tripoulas was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Until 2023 he worked as a surgeon in the Greek National Health Service including seven years on the island of Ikaria. His maternal grandfather is the poet and Olympic athlete Demetrios Golemis. His poems are collected in two books titled A Soul Inside Each Stone (also available as a bilingual edition), and Polytropos, both published by Dos Madres Press. He is currently at work on his third collection of poems.