JULIA WHITTY was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and emigrated as a child to the United States with her Tasmanian father and Anglo-Indian mother. She holds dual American and Australian citizenships.
Her latest award-winning book THE FRAGILE EDGE:DIVING & OTHER ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2007.
Her first book A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA is an award-winning collection of short stories published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002 and translated into German by Marebuchverlag and Italian by Sartorio Editore.
She's Environmental Correspondent at Mother Jones magazine and a blogger at The Blue Marble. A former filmmaker, her more than 70 nature documentaries have aired on PBS, Nature, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Outdoor Life Channel, Arts & Entertainment, and with many other broadcasters worldwide. Whitty is on the Board of Advisors of BlueVoice. She lives in northern California.