Michael Joyce is the author of the seminal hyperbook Afternoon, a story. A more recent hypertext fiction, WOE, appears in Writing on the Edge. His first novel The War Outside Ireland won the Great Lakes New Writers Award. Formerly the coordinator of the Centre for Narrative and Technology at Jackson Community College, Joyce is currently at Vassar College. He was one of the creators of the Storyspace hypertext writing environment.
Joyce lectures and publishes widely on hypertext.