Joyce Finn is an author and playwright originally from Boston but currently transplanted to South Carolina. She only started writing in her 40s; she took her first creative writing course at Northeastern University and there discovered the fun of playing with words. Her nonliterary background includes biochemistry, studying mining geology in the Outback, real estate appraising, and finally journalism. A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, her fiction has been published in Flashquake, Room Magazine, The Bermudian, and elsewhere. She has contributed nonfiction writing to Poets and Writers, South Carolina Living, The Traveler, Skirt, and elsewhere in print and online. Her story “The Pinch-Eyed Dog” was third runner-up in the 2024 Great American Fiction Contest.