"Kathy Marks" is a British journalist best known for her work on The Independent.

Marks grew up in Manchester, England, and studied languages. A journalist since 1984, her first job was at the Reuters news agency and has also worked for the Daily Telegraph. She has covered violence in East Timor in 1999, the 2002 Bali bombings/2002 Bali nightclub bombings, the civil war in Indonesia’s Insurgency in Aceh/Aceh province, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake/Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and the May 2006 Java earthquake/2006 Java earthquake.

Marks became The Independents Asia-Pacific correspondent based in Sydney, Australia, in 1999. Marks covered the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 on and off that Pacific island and has written a book on the subject.

In 2013, she won a Walkley Award in the Indigenous Affairs category for her essay 'Channelling Mannalargenna' in The Griffith Review.

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