Trilby was born in Toronto but grew up all over the map thanks to her peripatetic journalist parents. After completing degrees from Oxford and the LSE, she spent a year working at a London auction house - but soon gave it up to become a freelance journalist and writer.
Her first novel - for children 9-14 - will be published in 2009 (Tundra Books). Meanwhile, a “grown-up” novel, set in Ceylon and Flanders in the 1930s, is in the works.
Almost a year since receiving a 1910 Sigwalt letterpress, she has yet to decide where the gauge pins go.
