Claire Scobie is an English-born journalist and author of Last Seen in Lhasa, winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award (2007). She writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Observer, UK and is a contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, Marie Claire and The Australian Way, the Qantas in-flight magazine. Scobie lives in Sydney, teaches writing workshops and is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. In 2009 she began a research scholarship with the Writing and Society Group at the University of Western Sydney. She is currently working on her next book, a novel set in south India.