Lisa Grainger is the Sustainability editor of Country & Town House, and interviews women whose work helps to make our world greener and fairer for all. While juggling her roles as deputy editor and travel editor of The Times LUXX magazine, she is an award-winning travel writer, whose articles have been published around the world, from Conde Nast Traveller and Departures to Travel & Leisure. She has worked as a full-time writer and editor on the news, business and arts desks of The Times, the features director of Elle and the acting deputy editor of Sunday Times Style and was Marie Claire’s first Green columnist 25 years ago. She has interviewed prominent women from Kate Moss and Iman to Winnie Mandela and Kristine Tompkins of Patagonia – and is regularly found in a wilderness, researching the work of people devoted to conservation, green tourism and wildlife. She is regularly asked to conduct interviews for TV, conferences and public travel events; her dream job would have been shadowing David Attenborough. Her book of African myths and legends, Stories Gogo Told Me, published by Penguin, was collected while hiking around five countries in southern Africa and living with different tribes. Its proceeds are donated to CAMFED, for the education of African girl orphans.
