Gillian Bouras was born in Melbourne in 1945. She worked as a teacher in Australia before moving to Greece with her husband and children in 1980. She is the author of A Foreign Wife (1986), A Fair Exchange (1991), Aphrodite and the Others (1994), A Stranger Here (1996) and Starting Again (1999), all published by Penguin, and all dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece. She has also produced a novel for children, Saving Christmas, and her shorter pieces continue to be widely published.
