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Judith Graham, born in Christchurch in 1937, was sent in 1950 as a boarder to her mother’s school, St Dominic’s College Dunedin.
In 1955, two months after leaving school, she entered the Dominican Novitiate to become a nun, taking on the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, as required during the repressive pre-Vatican II era.
Judith Graham studied extramurally at Otago University and graduated M.A. Hons English in 1961, before going on to teach at St Dominic’s College Dunedin, and St Catherine’s Invercargill. Her experiences throughout these years, however, as she battled for acceptance and spiritual fufilment in a Church stifled by rules and regulations, meant that she abandoned Religious Life in 1967.
Judith married in 1968 and continued teaching in single-sex and co-ed secondary schools. She lives in Dunedin and has two grown-up children.
Upon its first publication in 1992, her book Breaking the Habit sold out in ten days.