Madeline Potter was born in Romania in 1989 and grew up Romani in nineties post-Communist Romania. She now lives in Scotland and is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature at the University of Edinburgh, having earned her PhD from the University of York in 2020. Her academic monograph, THEOLOGICAL MONSTERS, will be published in 2024. THE ROMA: A TRAVELLING HISTORY is her first trade book.
Blending meditative personal memoir, lyrical travel writing and absorbing history, The Roma brings to light the forgotten history of Romani communities throughout Europe from the sixteenth century to the present day.
