Joanne Fedler

Joanne Fedler (born 1967) is an Australian author. She is the author of 16 books including Secret Mothers' Business; When Hungry, Eat; and Your Story: How to Write It so Others Will Want to Read It.

Biography Fedler was born in South Africa and has studied law in both South Africa and the US. She has law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and from Yale which she attended on a Fulbright scholarship in 1993. She was a lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2005. The Dreamcloth was nominated for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2006. Jennifer Crocker wrote that "The Dreamcloth marks a watershed moment in South African fiction."

In 2006, her book Secret Mothers' Business was published in Australia by Allen & Unwin. and the United Kingdom, with rights sold in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Croatia. To date it has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide.

She is also the author of Things Without A Name, a contemporary love story set in the world of rape and domestic violence, published by Allen & Unwin (2008);

Activism Joanne Fedler has made appearances at the Sydney Writers Festival, the Jewish Sydney Writers Festival, the Dymocks Literacy Foundation Great Debate, and the Gidget Foundation to raise money for post-natal depression.

In 1996, she set up a legal advocacy centre to end violence against women of which she was the CEO until 1998.