Isabella Tree

Writers bio:
Isabella Tree was born in 1964. For two years she worked as senior travel correspondent for London's Evening Standard. In 1991 the UK's Society of Authors awarded her a grant to write about Papua New Guinea. The resulting book, Islands in the Clouds, published by Lonely Planet in 1996, was shortlisted for The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

In 1997 she won the Travelex Travel Writers' Award for Best National Sunday Newspaper Feature, for an article on Tzotzil Indians in Chiapas, Mexico; and in 1999 was Overall Winner in the same awards for an article on the Living Goddess in Kathmandu.

Her latest book, Sliced Iguana: travels in Mexico, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2001 and a travel recollection about her childhood on the island of Spetses in Greece featured in The Best American Travel Writing 2002.

Isabella is also author of The Bird Man: the extraordinary story of John Gould which was republished by Ebury Press in 2003. She is currently working on a novel set in Kathmandu.