Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers.  She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy.  She is perhaps best known for her Obernewtyn Chronicles and for her novel The Gathering (joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award).  Another of her novels, Greylands, was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction - Young Adult Division, and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair.  She has also written many short stories for both children and adults.

With her partner and daughter, Isobelle divides her time between Prague in the Czech Republic and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia.