Joy Thierry Llewellyn is an avid long-distance hiker who loves living out of a backpack. She was a story editor and screenwriter for film and TV, and taught screenwriting in Canada, India, and China. She's been a journalist, wildlife biology technician, governess in Australia, spent time in a TIbetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal researching the resident Rinpoche, stayed in a remote Indian hospital while travelling the world in the footsteps of Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova, and worked in France on a goat farm in the Pyrenees. Her memoir short story about growing up in isolated fishing camps in Northern Quebec was short listed for the Commonwealth Prize. She now lives on a small BC island where she writes Young Adult novels about adventurous female rebels, and is finishing a travel memoir, Lovers of Leaving.