Stavros Tsimicalis is a poet, restaurateur and chef. He was born in Skoura, a small village by the Eurotas River in Laconia, and emigrated to Canada in 1963. He is the author of two books of poetry: Exiled the Myth Needles Deeper (1982) and Liturgy of Light (Aya/Mercury Press, 1986). Stavros trained at the Windsor Arms Hotel in the late 1970s. He was, for many years, maître-d at the Millcroft Inn north of Toronto. He lives, with his wife Mary and their three daughters, in Richmond Hill. He currently owns and operates Café Pleiade on Mount Pleasant in Toronto.