Juno Dawson is a #1 Sunday Times (London) bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and journalist and a columnist for Attitude magazine. Juno's books include the global bestsellers This Book Is Gay and Clean . She also writes for television and has multiple shows in development both in the UK and US. Juno grew up in West Yorkshire, writing imaginary episodes of Doctor Who . She later turned her talent to journalism, interviewing luminaries such as Steps and Atomic Kitten before writing a weekly serial in a Brighton newspaper. Her writing has appeared in Glamour , The Pool , Dazed , and The Guardian . She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities , BBC Women's Hour , ITV News, Channel 5 News , This Morning , and Newsnight . Juno lives in Brighton.

She is a part of the queer cabaret collective known as Club Silencio. In 2014, Juno became a School & College Role Model for the charity Stonewall.