Lakis Polycarpou has been making up stories and writing them down since he was in the sixth grade.
In 2015, he published August in the Vanishing City, which takes place on the island of Cyprus, one of his favorite places in the world. He is currently working on a dystopian novel that he hopes won’t come true. He’s won some awards but he doesn’t want to talk about them.
Lakis was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and grew up outside of Denver, Colorado. He traveled to New York City for graduate school. He had intended to leave the City after a year, but he met a pretty woman on the day he arrived and decided to stay.
Lakis and his wife Renee currently live in Tarrytown, New York, with their three amazing children, Dominic, Charis and Christos. In addition to his duties as a father and husband, Lakis serves as a full-time support human and private valet for an emotionally dependent wolf-dog named Rikki.