Feather Pen is the brain child of Isabel Robinson, a freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia.
Isabel was introduced to books as a young child: she loved Pig in a Muddle so much that she learnt how to recite it backwards, a trick her parents enjoyed showing off. An early career highlight was having her poetry published in Horse Lovers magazine and being paid in horse shampoo (sadly, she never had a horse).
After finishing school, Isabel studied international development, history and journalism and worked in the non-profit sector for ten years. She managed aid programs in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and China, but the niggling desire to write never left her. In 2015, she began taking her writing career more seriously: her work has been published in The Age, Air Niugini Magazine, The Post Courier, Upstart, and on ABC Radio Australia, and she is currently working on a novel.
When she’s not tinkering at her keyboard, Isabel can be found hanging out in her St Kilda apartment with her husband Stephen and black cat Neo, eating toast with Vegemite and doing cryptic crosswords. Her favourite writers are Jane Austen and Helen Garner.