Mark Isaacs is a writer, a community worker, an adventurer, a campaigner for social justice, and author of The Undesirables: Inside Nauru (Hardie Grant, 2014), an account of his work with asylum seekers. Mark continues to work for a settlement service in Sydney and he writes as a freelancer. He is a committee member of PEN Sydney and he has also published articles with Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, Huffington Post, New Internationalist, VICE, New Matilda, Conscious Magazine, Roads and Kingdoms and many others.