Isobel Cunningham was born in Wales, where she learned to love the music of words, but has lived in Montreal, Canada, for most of her life, on unceded territory of the Kanien'keha: ka (Mohawk) nation. Her teaching degree allowed her to take sabbaticals from hospital social work and travel to Greece, Poland, and the Canadian Arctic. Her writing has appeared widely online and in print. She is inspired by our beautiful world and the astonishing people who live in it.