Joyce Wayne is the author of the spy fiction novel Last Night of the World and the historical novel The Cook’s Temptation. Recently, she edited A National Awakening: Robin Mathews and the Struggle for Canadian Identity, a collection of essays by high profile writers who worked with Mathews to increase Canadian content in schools, the arts and business and industry.

Before teaching at Sheridan College, where she launched the Canadian Journalism for Internationally Trained Writers, she was the editor at Quill & Quire and the Editorial Director of non-fiction at McClelland & Stewart. Joyce is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review of Canada  where her essay “All the Kremlin’s Men” was chosen for Best Canadian Essays.

She lives in Oakville, Ontario.