Joanna Traynor

Joanna Traynor is the author of 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.

Her first novel, Sister Josephine, won the SAGA Prize in 1996.^[1] Traynor 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." She is passionate about writing, communications, technology and relationship counselling.

Bibliography

Novels

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

References