Pol Koutsakis was born in Chania, Crete, Greece. He is currently living in Perth, Australia, with his wife, daughter and son.
He is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. He has won the National Book Award for Young Adult Literature in Greece, in 2016, for "Just one breath", the second novel of his YA crime "Trilogy of Crete".
In 2023 he won the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) - Greek National Section award for the best young adult book of the year, for his novel "Fire".
Pol has also won twice the National Award for Playwriting in Greece.
Athenian Blues and Baby Blue are the first two novels in the Stratos Gazis noir crime series, which is published by Bitter Lemon Press in the UK, USA and Australia and by Patakis Publications in Greece.
His plays have been staged in Greece, USA and the UK and published in Canada.