Joanna Traynor

Joanna Traynor is a British writer, who is the author of the novels Sister Josephine, Divine and Bitch Money, all published by Bloomsbury, and an educational television producer/writer.

Life and writing

Joanna Traynor was born in London but raised in foster care in Chester. She is of mixed race — her mother was a daughter of Irish immigrants and her father Nigerian.

Traynor's first novel, Sister Josephine, won the SAGA Prize in 1996. She described the novel as "a semi-autobiographical account of a foster child on a white northern working class council estate and her experience of hospital life as a nurse in Liverpool. I used my own childhood as a canvas and painted things on it."[1] She is passionate about writing, communications, technology and relationship counselling.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Sister Josephine (Bloomsbury, 1997)
  • Divine (Bloomsbury, 1999)
  • Bitch Money (Bloomsbury, 2000)

References

  1. ↑ "The life of a prize-winning author has its ups and downs", PR Newswire, 23 October 1996.
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