About the Author

On her return, she wrote An Amazon and a Donkey to popular acclaim. Soon afterwards, she based herself in Guatemala, where she not only met the Quebecois father of her two sons, but also wrote Chickenbus Journey: False Paradise in Guatemala (ebook due in 2025), and co-authored two guide books.

Having grown up in a divided Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired her to take a journey into history by bicycle, following an ancient trade route for amber through the newly accessible countries of Eastern Europe. The result was The Amber Trail, in which she discovered first-hand that people should never be judged by the crimes of their governments . 

Her first book to be published in the USA is Tales from the Sharp End: A Portrait of Chile (University of New Mexico Press), due in September 2024, which has already been hailed “a witty, richly colored gaze at Chile from within” by the New York Times correspondent for Chile, Pascale Bonnefoy.

Natascha Scott-Stokes emigrated from England to Chile in 2006, but her family’s connection with the country goes right back to the 19th century, when her great-great-grandfather arrived in Valparaíso in 1873, with a contract to install the first submarine telecommunications cable between Peru and Chile.

The author has a Masters in Latin American history and archaeology from the University of London and is a member of various professional associations, including US-based Biographers International; the Chilean Translators’ Association; and the Society of Authors in the UK. She has written about Latin America since 1986, and is also the author of a biography of the renowned butterfly collector Margaret Fountaine, whose legacy, by an extraordinary twist of fate, ended up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. See Wild & Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine.