Press Kit

Short Bio

Jo Treggiari is the award-winning, best-selling author of six books for young adults. Her 2019  novel The Grey Sisters (Penguin Teen) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Award and a finalist for the Ann Connor Brimer Children’s Literature Award. Her most recent book is Heartbreak Homes, a finalist for the 2023 Dartmouth Books Awards,  the 2023 Ann Connor Brimer Children’s Literature Award, and the winner of the 2023 Crime Writers of Canada Juvenile/YA Fiction Award of Excellence.

Long Bio

Jo Treggiari was born in London, England, and raised in Canada. She spent many years in Oakland, California and New York, where she trained as a boxer, wrote for a punk magazine, and owned a gangster rap/indie rock record label. Her novel Ashes, Ashes, a YA post-apocalyptic adventure published by Scholastic Press and also Germany’s Ars Edition, was a multiple award nominee and bestseller. Her novella Love You Like Suicide, was released as a limited, collector’s edition of the long-running punk zine Cometbus. Her acclaimed psych-thriller Blood Will Out, was published by Penguin Teen in 2018. Her 2019 novel The Grey Sisters was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as well as being a Crime Writers of Canada shortlist nominee, and a finalist for the Ann Connor Brimer Award. Her newest book, a YA thriller Heartbreak Homes, a finalist for the 2023 Dartmouth Books Awards, the 2023 Ann Connor Brimer Children’s Literature Award, and the winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Juvenile/YA Fiction Award, was published by Nimbus Publishing in October of 2022. Jo lives with her two children in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (the unceded, traditional territory of the Mi’kmaq) where she co-owns a curated, spirited, independent bookstore Block Shop Books.

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Books

Agent representation: Ali McDonald/ 5 Otter Literary

Contact her: ali@fiveotterliterary.com

Contact Jo: writer(at)jotreggiari(dot) com or snail mail her at:
Box 1446, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, B0J 2C0, Canada.