Ioannis Kalkounos is a poet from Greece, currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

He won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2020, and his poetry has appeared in Ambit, Gutter, harana poetry, and The Scores. He has translated several poets into Greek, including John Burnside, Alice Oswald, Jackie Kay, André Naffis-Sahely, Rachael Allen, Emily Berry and Niall Campbell.

Ioannis is the Programme Manager of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.