Joyce Hinnefeld is the author of the forthcoming novel in stories The Dime Museum (Unbridled Books, 2025), The Beauty of Their Youth (part of the Wolfson Press American Storytellers series), the novels In Hovering Flight and Stranger Here Below, and the short story collection Tell Me Everything and Other Stories (winner of the 1997 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize in Fiction). She is an Emerita Professor of English at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA and a program facilitator with Shining Light, an organization that provides programming for incarcerated people.

Her newest novel, Ghost Cranes, is an exploration of America’s cultural divide and, more importantly, a deeper exploration of love, the natural world, and the complicated bonds of family. It focuses a keen eye on gun culture and on the perilous disregard for climate change, endangered species, and scientific research displayed by many Americans. But it also depicts the lives of rural Midwesterners who are not gun fanatics or science deniers—people like friends and family members that author Joyce Hinnefeld knows and loves, including teachers, researchers, journalists, therapists, activists, and more.