About...

Marios Koutsoukos was born in August, 1983. He writes both in his native Greek and English.

His first novel was published back in 2001 and, since then, he refuses to give up this writer nonsense and get a real job. He is a well-known and rather notorious genre-jumper. He has written works ranging from the purely academic to epic fantasy and contemporary fiction.

He has a Bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a Masters in Creative Writing from the Hellenic Open University and has completed his PhD in Classics at the University of Liverpool (Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology). Of all things, he chose to specialise in the history of ancient religions and philosophy in Late Antiquity.

Apart from being an early career scholar, he works as a screenwriter, literary translator, copywriter and (though he'll never admit it publicly), ghostwriter. He also produces the only Greek podcast exploring the history of western esotericism from an academic perspective.

Since 2004 he's been involved in the international Metal music scene, writing lyrics and developing concepts in collaboration with bands and artists all over the world (see portfolio). Despite some early (not to mention downright bizarre) personal experiments with music, he is not a musician. Much like a bass-player, he should be just considered as someone who hangs out with musicians a lot.