About...

Janet Brown is an Australian writer whose work has been published and performed since the early 1990s. With Joanne Ryan she co-wrote A Hole In The Ground  which was produced at La Mama’s Carlton Courthouse and the Wyndham Cultural Centre in 2004 after extensive script development from the Melbourne Theatre Company. The play, directed by renowned theatre director David Myles, explored the No Toxic Dump Campaign fought by the Werribee community in 1996-1998. Since then she has had several plays produced in Melbourne, Sydney and regional Victoria. You can view more information about her plays on Doollee at
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/brown-janet.html

Her novel The Shaded Side was published in 2003 and her short stories and essays are published in anthologies and literary journals in Australia and the US. In her first book In the Company of Strangers, former patients of Australian tuberculosis sanatoria shared their experiences and insights (1993). Janet has a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, a Graduate Diploma in Reading Education and a Bachelor of Science Education. She teaches writing workshops, hosts writing events and lives in the beautiful Victorian Surfcoast region.