Brenna Quinlan

Legend has it that upon being born, Brenna Quinlan promptly picked up a pencil and began to draw. She's still going, because drawing is important, and because it makes people happy. When she's not drawing, she's to be found in the garden, admiring the beauty of a home grown eggplant or the taste of a sun-warmed strawberry.

She also likes doing hard things - one time she spent a whole year riding a bicycle across the Americas. She lives in a straw bale house that she built herself, in a permaculture community at the ends of the earth in Denmark, Western Australia.