Cornwell, Autumn

Squat toilets, profuse sweating, bamboo huts, jumbo centipedes these are just some of the delights Autumn Cornwell has encountered in her global travels. Not to mention the can t-believe-it s-true Laotian jungle adventure which inspired her first novel, "Carpe Diem".
A travel junkie, Autumn has explored 22 countries and counting. She s spent the last couple summers working with refugees and orphans in Burma, Thailand, and Laos. Southeast Asia remains close to her heart since her days as a missionary kid in New Papua where she ate her weight in guavas and mingled with reformed headhunters