Dani Valent is the co-writer (with Braden King) of the feature film HERE, filmed in Armenia and starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal. HERE premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2011 where it was one of 16 films in US Dramatic competition.

Dani lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of In the Mix: Great Thermomix Recipes. She also works as a freelance journalist for The Age, Melbourne’s daily newspaper, where her columns include a weekly restaurant review. She has profiled prominent Australians including Prime Minister Julia Gillard and astronaut Andy Thomas.

She spent eight years travelling the world for guidebook publisher Lonely Planet, writing about places including Bulgaria and Bonaire, Hong Kong and New York, India and Mississippi. A long time ago she published a book of poetry and short fiction, Dani Valent: Works.