No biographical information exists for the anonymous author or authors of the Iambica Adespota, or Anonymous Iambics. The work is dated to the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, from the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE, a timeframe consistent with its literary context within the continuing iambic tradition. The poet's social and geographical background are entirely unknown.

The known work is the Iambica Adespota, a collection of iambic fragments preserved through quotations in later authors such as Stobaeus. The occasional designation of two separate works likely refers to distinct fragment groups cataloged under this single anonymous title.

These fragments are significant for the study of the post-classical iambic tradition, demonstrating the genre's evolution beyond its archaic exponents. They provide evidence for poetic conventions, metrics, and the use of Koine Greek in Hellenistic and Imperial-period poetry. Their value lies primarily in their literary and linguistic features, rather than in any recoverable authorial biography.