Joyce Hinnefeld is an Emerita Professor of English at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA and a program facilitator for the prison education and support program www.shining-light.com. She is the author of a short story collection, Tell Me Everything (1998), which was awarded the 1997 Breadloaf Writer's Conference Bakeless Prize in fiction in 1997, and of the novels In Hovering Flight (2008) and Stranger Here Below (2010), the story collection The Beauty of Their Youth (2020), and the forthcoming novel in stories The Dime Museum (August 2025).