Author and Poet Eleni Floratou -Paidoussi

Eleni Paidoussi was born in Washington D.C, and is of Kefalonian descent. After graduating from high school in Argostoli, she studied Medicine at the Medical School of the National University of Athens for one year. In 1946, she returned to the USA, where she studied Economics and Sociology and completed her Master’s in Education at St. John’s University. She worked as a teacher in PS11 Queen’s primary school, and lived in New York. Her poems, short stories, and literature articles have been published in several magazines and newspapers in Greece and the USA. She was the founding member of the Greek Cultural Center, which has published the bilingual magazine ”Goals” and was an active member in the Commission for the restoration of democracy in Greece, during the Greek military Junta of 1967-1974.