Joyce Wayne is a prolific author, editor, and journalist who lives in Oakville Ontario with her husband and their Great Pyrenees, Rufus.

She was previously the editor at Quill & Quire and the editorial director of non-fiction at McClelland & Stewart Publishers. Her novels, The Cook’s Temptation and Last Night of the World, are available online and from Mosaic Press. Recently, she edited A National Awakening: Robin Mathews & the Struggle for Canadian Identity, a collection of essays by eight public intellectuals about Mathews’ legacy as a Canadian nationalist.

For many years, she was the head of the Journalism Department at Sheridan College where she launched the Sheridan Centre for Internationally Trained Individuals. She previously wrote a “Living in Retirement” blog for the Globe and Mail, and her current column on Substack “About Retirement” is read by thousands each month. month. She is a frequent contributor to The Literary Review of Canada where her essay All the Kremlin’s Men was first published. It was included in Best Canadian Essays 2021. Joyce’s essays and book reviews Clock Watching, And Change We Did, To Lüneburg, That Enduring Force, and Their Everyday Lives can be found in the magazine. She is the recipient of the Fiona Mee Award for Literary Journalism.

Joyce is currently working on her next book, a non-fiction narrative about her Eastern European family, growing up during the turbulent 60s and 70s, campus politics, and the current crisis facing democracy.

Originally from Windsor Ontario, Joyce attended Carleton and Queen’s University. She has an M.A. in English literature. Her master’s thesis was entitled Looking for Milton Acorn.