About

THE WRITERLY 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 the shows Something I Heard, You Know The Place, and Reader’s Corner for NPR.

THE LONGER BIO: Hi. My name is Joel Wayne. I’m the public programs manager for a 25-year old literary arts organization called The Cabin. I manage writing residences and workshops, and produce reading programs with a lot of writers I admire, like Anthony Doerr and Alison Bechdel, Elizabeth Gilbert and Louise Erdrich, and many others. I’m also work for our local NPR-affiliate, producing a number of shows, including: Reader’s Corner, coordinating interviews with authors like Ty Seidule, Lydia Millet, Nicholas Kristof, and Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah; You Know The Place, where my co-host and I visit weird little businesses and apiaries and nude resorts and the like, offering Atlas Obscura-type snapshots of places you never stop into on your daily commute; and Something I Heard, featuring regional writer-curators sharing poetry and prose on a monthly theme. My fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Independent (UK), The Moth, and Salon, among other places. 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.