Joanne Ganley is an aspiring writer. She enjoys mystery/crime fiction and is currently writing a collection of short stories and a novel.

After marriage and a family, she enrolled in a BA (Psychology) at Auckland University, and then moved to the Coromandel where she completed her degree extramurally through Massey University. In 2009 she enrolled in Northland Polytechnic’s on-line Diploma in Applied Writing, which enabled her to hone her writing skills and finish her first novel. These days she calls the latter ‘my writing apprenticeship’.

Biographical sources

https://mlt.org.nz/te-papa-tupu/te-papa-tupu-2012-2/te-papa-tupu-competition-winners-2012/ 15 November 2016