Kathy Marks is The Independent's Asia-Pacific correspondent, reporting on Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines and the South Pacific. Born in Manchester, she worked for Reuters
and Fleet Street newspapers before moving to Sydney
in 1999.

She has reported from more than 20 countries, covering stories including the Bali bombings, the civil war in Indonesia's Aceh province and the Boxing Day tsunami.

In 2004 she was one of four journalists who spent six weeks on Pitcairn Island for the child abuse trials. Pitcairn: Paradise Lost (HarperCollins 2008) won the Ned Kelly prize for true crime-writing and was also shortlisted for the CAL/Waverley Library Award for Literature.