Maria Strani-Potts was born in Corfu, Greece in 1946. She graduated from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.
Since 1969 she has travelled widely with her husband, who worked for the British Council. She has lived in Ethiopia, Kenya, England, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Australia, where she spent seven years based in Sydney. Maria Strani-Potts divides her time between Corfu, London and Vitsa, Zagori.

She wrote her first book, The Cat of Portovecchio, Corfu Tales (Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, Australia, 2007) in English.

The Pimping of Panorea is a story for grown-ups, an allegorical novella about human greed and the rape of the environment.

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