Isla Winarto

Isla Winarto was born in Sydney, Australia, to an Australian mother and Indonesian father. Until the age of six, she grew up in Australia , then moved to Indonesia where she first met her Indonesian father who had been deported from Australia, under the White Australia policy, just a few months before she was born. Isla achieved a BA honors degree in Indonesian language/literature from the University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers’ College. Her hobbies are reading, traveling, meeting new people and doing social work. She has traveled to almost 40 countries on personal and business trips.