Joyce Hinnefeld

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Joyce Hinnefeld (born November 9, 1961) is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction.

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Hinnefeld is a professor of English at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary fiction. She has directed the Moravian Writers' Conference in 2014, 2015, 2017, and 2018. Her conferences have attracted notable keynote speakers such as Laurie Halse Anderson, Ursula Hegi, Beth Kephart, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Marie Myung-Ok Lee. She is a graduate of the PhD program at the State University of New York – Albany. [1] [2] Her fiction tends to address challenging social issues while exploring the inner world of its female characters, particularly their mother-daughter relationships. [3]

Hinnefeld is a 1984 graduate of Hanover College. She earned her master's degree from Northwestern University in 1985. Following graduation, she held editing positions at World Book Encyclopedia, and St. Martin's Press, while also working as a freelance writer. From 1992 to 1994 she was managing editor of 13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine.

Hinnefeld is the author of the novels In Hovering Flight (2008) and Stranger Here Below (2010). Her short fiction has been included in publications such as the Denver Quarterly and the Greensboro Review and anthologies, including Prairie Hearts: Women View the Midwest (1996), edited by Whitney Scott, and Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from the Writers Community (1997), edited by Laurel Blossom. Her collection of short stories, Tell Me Everything and Other Stories, won the 1997 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize for fiction. [4]

Her debut novel, In Hovering Flight, was selected as IndieBound's #1 Indie Next Pick in September 2008. The novel follows Addie Kavanagh, a cancer-stricken birder, environmental activist, and painter, during her final conversations with her daughter and closest friends. The Washington Post's Ron Charles described the novel as a meditation on death, the complexity of human relationships, and the environment that is "quiet as twilight and just as lovely." [5]

Her most recent novel, Stranger Here Below, examines the developing relationship between Maze, a white student, and Mary Elizabeth, a black student, who are roommates at the newly integrated Berea College in Kentucky in 1961. Maze and Mary Elizabeth seek to understand how their experiences and family histories have been shaped by race, class, religion, and sexuality in a work Ariel Balter of the New York Journal of Books described as "graceful . . . a beautiful tapestry of a novel." [6]

Hinnefeld has published essays in The Millions and The Briar Cliff Review .

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  1. ↑ "Joyce Hinnefeld". Moravian College Faculty Experts Guide. Moravian College. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "Contact". Moravian College Writer's Conference. Moravian College. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Freeman, Sarah. "New novel by Joyce Hinnefeld tackles race and family". The Morning Call. The Morning Call. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Crutchfield, Christine (Fall 2008). "An Interview with Joyce Hinnefeld". The Chattahoochee Review. 28 (4): 118.
  5. ↑ Charles, Ron. "Hope Is The Thing With Feathers". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Balter, Ariel. "Stranger Here Below". New York Journal of Books. New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
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