Dr Joanna Kujawa is a writer and academic with a PhD from Monash University, MA and BHons from the University of Toronto (Centre for Mediaeval Studies and the Pontifical Institute). She is a published author (The ABC, The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Best Australian Stories, the Griffith Review, as well as articles in international academic journals). She also published a spiritual travelogue, Jerusalem Diary: Searching for the Tomb and House of Jesus which was a bestseller on Amazon in its category in 2012 and 2013.

Since 2012 she has been giving talks around Australia on the Gnostic Gospels and Mary Magdalene for the Sofia network and the Carl Jung Societies. She is presently co-editing an academic book on spiritual travel and has just finished a novel on spirituality and sexuality.