Maria Nikoloudaki – Routsieri was born in Moires, prefecture of Heraklion, Crete. She is an amateur painter and held her first solo exhibition in 1978.

She is a writer and a poet and a founding member of the Centre for Letters and Arts “New Intellectual Circle of Kallithea” (Νέος Πνευματικός Κύκλος Καλλιθέας). She is a member of the Pan-Hellenic Union of Writers, the Pan-Hellenic Union of Literature and Art and the International Society of Greek Writers.