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About Me
 Polly Evans (modelling a red pinafore to the left, aged two) is very cowardly and not at all fond of danger. She does, however, have an unfortunate tendency to seek out discomfort and sometimes even downright pain. It was this ugly trait that led her six years ago to throw in her comfortable office job – complete with its twizzly chair and free use of the coffee machine – and to take off on a leg-battering bicycle tour of Spain.The result of her endeavours was one very sore set of limbs and her first book, It’s Not About the Tapas, which was short-listed for the WHSmith People’s Choice Travel Writing award. She indulged in further escapades the following year, this time swapping pedal-power for a motorbike to travel around New Zealand and to write her second book, Kiwis Might Fly. Polly's third book, Fried Eggs with Chopsticks, tells the story of her sometimes-desperate battle to tour China by public transport while On a Hoof and a Prayer sees her learning to ride horses in Argentina. Polly’s fifth book, Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman, takes her to the wonderful subzero wilderness of Canada's Yukon Territory, where she learns to drive a dog sled.
Polly’s journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the Sunday Times, the Times, the Independent on Sunday, Wanderlust, High Life and Food & Wine. In 2006, she won the Independent on Sunday / Bradt Travel Guides travel-writing competition for a piece she wrote about dog-sledding in Canada’s Yukon Territory. She was also the winner in 2005 of the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Kenneth Westcott Jones Memorial Award for Best Transport Feature, for a piece she wrote about motorcyling in New Zealand. And in 2002 Polly won a Human Rights Press Award for a series of articles she wrote about racism in Hong Kong. When she’s not on the road, Polly lives in London.
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