George Pavlopoulos was born in Athens in 1980. He is the author of three novels, 300 Kelvin in the Afternoon (2007), Steam (2011), The Limit and the Wave (2014), and a collection of short stories, As Far Away from Home as You Can Get (2019). An extended excerpt from his first novel was featured in New York-based online translation venue, InTranslation. His second novel Steam is in the permanent collection of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia libraries. In 2015, George was invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture. He is also the author of several travelogues, including the highly praised travel blog series, Letters to Barbara and is a dedicated street photographer, presenting part of his work on his widely popular Instagram account. He currently lives in Berlin.