Joanna Karpasea-Jones
I've been writing since the age of 7, when a serious operation put me in a wheelchair for 6 months and there was nothing to do so I started writing stories to entertain myself. By the end of my 6 months of home schooling during my recovery from surgery, I was so good at English, I became the top of my class.
I had my first piece of work published at the age of 13 (poetry). In 1997 I set up a support group for people injured by vaccines and it was then that I realized I perferred to write about health topics so I have written on a variety of health related subjects, including pregnancy and childbirth, breast feeding, vaccination, disability, infertility, sexual health and women's health problems. I have regular columns at Suite 101 and The Mother magazine in addition to writing one off articles for other publications and helping with the creation of reference material on disability, for students of social studies.
