Writer/performer Jan Cornall has written 15 produced plays and musicals, a feature film, and two books set in Indonesia— a fictional memoir Take Me To Paradise, and a collection of poems and stories, Archipelagogo. Awarded several grants and fellowships, Jan has an MA in Cultural and Creative Practice and has taught writing at writer’s centres, community colleges and universities in Australia and Indonesia. With her company Writer’s Journey, Jan mentors writers and leads international writing workshops and retreats. A number of writers working with Jan have gone on to publish with major publishing houses. Jan’s current project is a travel memoir set in Vietnam that traces the footsteps of the French writer Marguerite Duras.