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.
[2] 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.
[4] Her second novel, Divine, dealt with the life of a black woman surrounded by drug abuse, confrontation with the law, rejection and rape.
Despite the harshness of the situations in which Traynor's characters find themselves, her ear for dialogue registers their humour as well as their resilience.
In an interview, Traynor explained how she saw the incident of her characters' lives: You just run into these things.