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. Travel and other cross-cultural experiments are in her blood.
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.
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