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Julia Whitty is an author and journalist with dual American and Australian citizenship. She is the recipient of awards for fiction, nonfiction, and journalism, including an O. Henry, a PEN USA, the John Burroughs Medal Award, and the Kiriyama Prize. She is the author of three books: Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean; The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific; and A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga.

Life
Whitty was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and emigrated to the United States as a child with her Australian father and her Anglo-Indian mother.

Whitty's book Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean tracks her career working on the ocean, first in science, later as a nature documentary filmmaker, currently as a writer.

Whitty's book The Fragile Edge: Diving & Other Adventures in the South Pacific chronicles her years shooting underwater documentary films in the South Pacific. The Fragile Edge won numerous awards in 2008, including the John Burroughs Medal Award for outstanding natural history book, a PEN USA Literary Award for creative nonfiction, the Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction, and the Northern California Book Award for creative nonfiction. The Fragile Edge was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Her first book, A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga is a collection of short stories. The title story won an O. Henry Award. The collection was a runner-up for a Pen/Hemingway.

Whitty is environmental correspondent with Mother Jones. Her articles have won several journalism awards, including the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Her work has contributed to several National Magazine Award nominations and awards.

Whitty's work has appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Story, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Calyx, the Chatahootchee Review.

Books

 * Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean (2010). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN-13: 978-0618119813
 * The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific. Houghton Mifflin (2007). ISBN-13: 978-0547053721
 * A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga. Houghton Mifflin (2002). ISBN-13: 978-0618119806
 * Larry Dark (ed). Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Anchor (1999). ISBN-13: 978-0385493581
 * Katrina Kennison and Kathleen Hirsch (eds). Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood. North Point Press (1997). ISBN: 0865475113