Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody was born in 1958 in Victoria, Australia, and grew up looking after her seven brothers and sisters, whom she kept in line by telling horror stories. She majored in literature and philosophy, and began writing novels at the age of fourteen.

She is the award-winning author of seven novels and one collection of short stories, Green Monkey Dreams (1996). Her Obernewtyn Chronicles have established her at the forefront of fantasy writing for young people and The Gathering (1993) won the Children’s Literature Peace Prize.  Darkfall (1997), the first in the trilogy Legendsong, was finished while Isobelle lived in Prague with her partner, the Czech writer and musician Jan Štolba.  She was Guest of Honor at the 2007 Australian National Science Fiction Convention held in Melbourne.

Isobelle divides her time between her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia and her travels abroad.  She published Dreaming Again in 2008, and is currently working on the sixth book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles, titled The Sending.