Juno Dawson is a #1 Sunday Times best-selling novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and a former columnist for Attitude Magazine. Juno’s books include the global bestseller THIS BOOK IS GAY. Her adult fantasy trilogy HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL COVEN launched in 2022, becoming an instant best-seller and selling over 250,000 copies in the UK alone.
Her TV credits include the 2025 series of DOCTOR WHO (BBC/DISNEY+) and has multiple original shows in development both in the UK and US, including projects with Bad Wolf, The Forge and The Lighthouse. Her debut short film was THE BIRTH OF VENUS (BBC 2020) and she created the first official Doctor Who scripted podcast DOCTOR WHO: REDACTED (BBC Sounds 2022).
An occasional actress and model, Juno had a cameo in the BBC’s I MAY DESTROY YOU (2020), a recurring role in HOLBY CITY (BBC 2021) and was the face of Jecca Cosmetics Play Pots campaign.
Juno lives in Brighton. She is a part of the queer cabaret collective known as CLUB SILENCIO. A leading transgender voice in the UK, in 2014, Juno became a Role Model for the charity STONEWALL and is a patron of NOT A PHASE.
Photo credit Eivind Hansen.