Anestis Melidonis was born in Athens in 1986. He graduated from the Philosophical Department of University of Athens where he also continued with his master studies and was awarded a Phd in Philosophy. He has published poems in literary reviews and has taken part in collective books and poetic anthologies. He has published two collections of poems, Papermade stars (Gavrielides editions, 2010 - nominated for the state award of best new author of the year and for the same category of
the litterary review Diavazo) and Back to the sea (Gavrielides, 2012).