Maria Christodoulou is from Famagusta and lives in Larnaca. She studied pedagogy at the Cyprus Pedagogical Academy and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Following that, preceded with her postgraduate studies at the University of Reading, UK, where she majored in organization, planning and management of education. She currently works as an assistant principal of Primary Education. She is engaged in poetry, prose, dancing and painting as well as in actions which aim to promote mental health and contribute to the overall well-being of young people. Her poems and short stories were included in literary magazines and anthologies in Cyprus and abroad. Her first poetry collection, “Hand gestures in the light”, was in the shortlist for the Thraka award of 2023. She is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Larnaca’s World Poetry Festival , the Cultural Movement of Larnaca «Friends of Literacy and Culture”, the Cyprus Writers Union and the National Writer’s Union of Cyprus”.
