CHRISTOS IKONOMOU was born in Athens in 1970. He has published four collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003), Something Will Happen, You’ll See (2010), and Good Will Come From The Sea (2014) and The Volcano Daughters (2017). Something Will Happen, You’ll See won Greece’s prestigious Best Short-Story Collection State Award and became the most reviewed Greek book of 2011. His work has been translated into seven languages.