Sharyn Munro is a freelance writer, award-winning short-story writer and literary activist, who aims to reach beyond the converted with her personal form of nature writing.

Her three non-fiction books are The Woman on the Mountain (Exisle, 2007), Mountain Tails (Exisle, 2009) and Rich Land, Wasteland (Pan Macmillan/Exisle, 2012).

She was awarded the NSW Nature Conservation Council’s 2014 Dunphy Award for ‘the most outstanding environmental effort of an individual’.