Gillian Bouras was born in Melbourne and is an expatriate Australian writer who has written several books, stories and articles, many of them dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece.

She studied for her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne, and from 1967 to 1980 she worked as a secondary school teacher of English. In 1981 she completed her Master of Education thesis at the same university on the life of her grandfather: School teacher in Victoria: the biography of Arthur John Hicks.

In 1996, her younger sister Jacqui committed suicide, after decades of mental illness. Bouras' book, No Time for Dances, explores her sister's life in an attempt to understand her suicide. As she writes: "I keep trying to close a mental door, or to put a very firm lid on these questions, for there are no answers, and writing them down is one way of attempting closure".

She spends her time between London and Greece, as well as maintaining ties with Australia.

Bouras published her first book, the autobiographical A foreign wife, in 1986. She has also had short stories and articles published in newspapers and journals such as Griffith REVIEW, Meanjin and Island. She has presented papers at conferences and participated in literary events, in Australia and elsewhere.