Joyce Wayne has an M.A. in English literature, she has taught journalism at Sheridan College, Oakville, ON for twenty-five years and she lives in Toronto, ON. She was a winner of the Diaspora Dialogues contest for fiction, she was awarded the Fiona Mee Award for literary journalism, the co-writer of the documentary film, So Far From Home in 2010, a film about refugee journalists persecuted for their political views, and various of her other works have beenpublished in Parchment, Golden Horseshoe Anthology, Canadian Voices, TOK6.