The Author

When not writing books, Joanne Macgregor is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice and works with all kinds of clients. She started her professional life as a high school English Teacher, but has also worked as an IT trainer, a theatre dogsbody, and management consultant. 

She lives in a small, beautiful seaside town, is in love with nature and chilies, and despairs of ever properly training her charm-monster of a beagle!

Joanne is a bird of many feathers and enjoys writing for different ages.

Writing under the pen name Jo Macgregor, she is the author of five books for adults:

- The First Time I Died

- The First Time I Fell 

- The First Time I Hunted

- The First time I Knocked 

- Dark Whispers 

She writes books for young adults under the name Joanne Macgregor: 

The Law of Tall Girls 

Hushed 

Recoil 

Refuse

Rebel 

Scarred 

The ecowarrior series of books for middle grade / younger teens:

- Turtle Walk 

- Rock Steady 

- Fault Lines 

She has also published a psychological self-help book under the pen name J. Macgregor:

Self Help Stories 

Joanne was first published in 19mumble when she was seven years old. The Star newspaper, a Johannesburg daily, printed her poem, which went something like this:

               Oh when the sun is shining bright and gay, it makes you want to sing today,

                                                            Sing, sing, sing!

  Oh when the sun is shining bright and gay, it makes you want to swim today,

                                                        Splash, splash, splash!

 (Editor: It went on a bit more, but you get the idea. These days, she writes better. Promise.)