Isobel Warren
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Isobel Warren is a Canadian author and journalist. Her journalism background is in newspapers and magazines, radio and television. She was founder of Hands Magazine, at that time Canada's only national craft publication, and served as its editor throughout the 1980s. Assignments have included: Editor, CARP News; Producer, The Senior Report (TVO); Producer, On Top of the World (national TV series.) She writes regularly for a variety of publications in Canada and the U.S., including the Toronto Star, Good Times Magazine, Forever Young and TravelScoop and has appeared in the Medical Post, National Post, Globe and Mail, Halifax Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Cloverdale Reporter and the Rotarian, as well as in-flights, Atmosphere and Airborn.
She was a founding member of the Travel Media Association of Canada. She is the author of “On the go at 50 Plus”, a handbook for mature travellers published in 1995, and is currently working on an updated version called “Travel Safe and Savvy”. She writes a monthly travel column and many articles for Good Times Magazine, a Canadian 50-plus magazine.
She attended Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Ryerson University) in the 1950.
She is married to Canadian television producer Milan Chvostek, and is the mother of singer-songwriter Annabelle Chvostek.
