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

She was previously the editor at Quill & Quire and the editorial director of non-fiction at McClelland & Stewart Publishers. Joyce is a contributing editor to This Magazine. Her novels, The Cook’s Temptation and Last Night of the World, are available online and from Mosaic Press.

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 blog “About Retirement” is read by thousands each month. Her essay All the Kremlin’s Men was included in Best Canadian Essays 2021. It was published in The Literary Review of Canada, alongside her other essays Clock Watching, And Change We Did, and To Lüneburg. 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. She also lectures at Toronto Classical Pursuits at the University of Toronto during the summer.

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.