Passion, Patience and Persistence



​Jo's debut novel, The Truth About My Daughter  will be released 14th September 2024 and is now available for pre order.

Sisters Fin and George navigate their love/hate relationship growing up in a highly dysfunctional family.
Will Fin finally fulfill her dream of parenthood, or will her family's needs once again prevail?

‘Steinbauer family history was rewritten even while it was happening until it became difficult to recall which bits were fabricated or embellished.’
​Jo is a Brisbane based GP who writes contemporary women’s fiction as well as freelance non-fiction articles about women’s issues and mental health. She also has a distance running habit. When she is not working or writing you will find her accruing kilometres while plotting her next story.
 
She lives in Brisbane and is married with three children. She shares her life with an elderly Pomeranian Papillon cross Pippa and a sprightly rescue cat Jiji.
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Learn more about Jo on her Hawkeye author page

Passion
Writing awards and Publications

Published Work
MiNDFOOD  - multiple essays about domestic violence, mental health and women's health issues
The Big Issue - October 2021 - Essay A Touch of Humanity
​Grieve Anthology - 2021 and 2022 Hunter's Writer's Centre 
Jump Anthology - 2021 Hawkeye Books 
​Water Under the Bridge Anthology - 2022 Hawkeye Books
Right Left Write Anthology - 2021 Volume 1 Queensland Writers Centre
Scope Magazine - multiple short stories and poetry
For Ukraine By Women of the World - by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey - poem The War to End All Wars
​Medicine Today - essays relating to general practice 
Persistence...

Marathons 

60 Marathons - completed
My Five Latest Marathons 

 


2022 - Indigenous Marathon Foundation November challenge marathon
2023 - Rome Virtual Pacer Marathon
2023 - Indigenous Marathon Foundation - Run Sweat Inspire for NAIDOC week
​2023 - Boston Pacer Adventure Marathon
2023- Indigenous Marathon Foundation November marathon challenge
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Patience...
Writing Novels 

Jo's novel The Truth About My Daughter, is a contemporary women's novel featuring two sisters who are polar opposites navigating their love/hate relationship within a dysfunctional family. The novel placed second in the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize.  
She has a publishing contract with Hawkeye publishing with a release date of 14 September 2024.

Her novel, A World of Silence was long listed with the Hawkeye Manuscript Development prize. It is a story about female friendship and how secrecy around domestic abuse, including coercive control, can have devastating consequences.  
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Her novel, The Family, long listed in 2024. It is a story about toxic religious ideology and sexual abuse and how Grace and Eden navigate a heartbreaking journey until the truth about their pasts is revealed.