Biography:

Stelia Dimitriou-Michailidou was born in Nicosia in 1979. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education) from the University of Cyprus, a Higher Diploma in Acting from the Vladimiros Kafkarides Drama School and a Master of Arts in Theatre Studies from the Open University of Cyprus. She is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Education - Language and Education, University of Cyprus.

Stelia Dimitriou-Michailidou has been serving Public Preschool Education as a Kindergarten Teacher in Public Kindergartens in Cyprus, from 2002 to the present. She has participated in theatrical and film productions as well as in visual arts events as an actress. She has also collaborated as a theater expert with the Cyprus Theatre Organization for the writing of the collective volume for the 50th anniversary of THOK, undertaking at a research and writing level the chapter concerning the Children's and Adolescent Stage. From September 2023 to June 2025, she teaches as a special educational staff at the European University of Cyprus, the course "Visual Arts and Education" to undergraduate students of the Department of Educational Sciences.

In 2020, she published her first children's book entitled "The Lemons of Life" in collaboration with A Bookworm Publication. In 2023, the same publications will publish the book "Pencils", which was honored with the State Literature Award for 2023 publications.

She has been the elected general representative of the Cyprus Writers' Union since 2020. She is also a member of the Children's and Youth Book Association and the Cyprus Writers' Union.

Stelia Dimitriou-Michailidou maintains her own YouTube channel with fairy tale narrations. Additionally, she has co-edited and co-presented the Cyprus Educational Television during the Pandemic. Finally, she maintains her own reflective Blogspot entitled This.Plans-Live, while at the same time she frequently writes articles on issues related to education and culture.