I was born and educated in London, England and completed my BA in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at London University before moving to Thessaloniki in 1994 to further my studies in the Greek language. In the following year, I started teaching English to Greek teenagers at evening school, and worked in that sector for 26 years. I completed a distance learning MA course in TESOL from Birmingham University in 2007 and I am currently studying for a second BA, this time in English Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and I teach English at all levels at the Apostolos Pavlos Schools in Pylaia. I live in Thessaloniki with my husband and daughter.