Joel Wayne
The short bio: Joel Wayne’s work has appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, The Independent (UK), The Moth, and Salon, among many other places. He’s the recipient of a 2019-2020 Fellowship in Literature by the ICA, a Silver Creek Writer’s Residency, the Lamar York Prize, and a Pushcart nod. Wayne is the public programs manager for The Cabin and produces You Know The Place and Reader’s Corner for NPR.
The longer bio: Hi. My name is Joel Wayne and my fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Independent (UK), The Moth, and Salon, among other places. I produce the program Reader’s Corner for Idaho’s NPR affiliate, coordinating interviews with authors like Ty Seidule, Lydia Millet, Nicholas Kristof, and earlier this year, Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. I also co-produce a podcast, You Know The Place, where my partner and I visit weird little businesses and locales and apiaries and nude resorts and the like, offering Atlas Obscura-type snapshots of places you never stop into on your daily commute. I’m also the public programs manager for a 25-year old literary arts organization called The Cabin, where I manage writing residences and workshops, and produce reading programs with a lot of writers I admire, like Amor Towles, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Anthony Doerr, Patrick Radden Keefe, Ruth Ozeki, Louise Erdrich, and many others. I hold a B.A. in English from the University of Montana and was in the MFA program at Boise State for a lot longer than I should have been (and still somehow missed Denis Johnson by a year). I live in Boise, Idaho with my wife and our two cats, Honey and Juju. Just lucky, I guess.