About
“Ms. Whitty knows animals; she knows the Earth’s remote and wild places. For fiction she mixes that impeccable authority with a lyrical imagination.”
Julia Whitty was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a mother from India and a father from Australia. The family immigrated to the US in her childhood. She grew up in New England, then worked her way to the Midwest, where she worked first in professional theater and later in science, including in Mexico, studying animal behavior in the wild. From there she migrated to California where she began making nature documentaries. Over the next 20 years she created more than 70 films for PBS, The Discovery Channel, Arts & Entertainment, and other broadcasters worldwide, as well as writing dozens of freelance scripts for other’s films. Eventually she began to write short stories, and then went on the write essays, articles, and books, for which she has won many awards. For nearly a decade she was Environmental Correspondent at Mother Jones magazine, specializing in long-form journalism focussed on the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and population issues. She lives in Northern California with her husband.