Lucretia Stewart

Writers bio:
Lucretia Stewart was born in Singapore and educated in Ankara, Peking, Washington DC and England. She read English Literature at Edinburgh University. She has worked extensively as a journalist; until she began writing books in 1990, it was the only career that she pursued.

She is the author of Tiger Balm: Travels in Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia (1992); The Weather Prophet: A Caribbean Journey (1995), which was short-listed for the 1996 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and Making Love: A Romance (1999), and the editor of Erogenous Zones: An Anthology of Sex Abroad(2000) and Travelling Hopefully: A Golden Age of Travel Writing (2006).

Lucretia was commissioning editor at Granta from 1998-1990 and she remains a contributing editor to the magazine. She also contributed the chapter on Caribbean literature to The World Atlas of Literature, edited by Malcom Bradbury (1996); Lotus Season (about Cambodia) to Amazonians (1997), and The Man in the Van (1999) to the London issue of Granta. She lives in Naxos, Greece.