Michael Joyce

Michael Joyce’s seventeen books and several digital works— most recently the poems Capricorn, Venus Descendant from Broadstone Books (2022) and the Kindle novel The World Beyond  (2021)— span a career as novelist, poet, critic, theorist, digital literature pioneer, and multimedia artist. In the early 1990’s The New York Times called his digital novel, afternoon, a story “the granddaddy of hypertext fictions.” afternoon has since been anthologized in Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology and translated into Italian, German, Polish and French. In 2020 it was the subject of a special Electronic Literature Organization online session celebrating the 30th anniversary of its publishing.

He has published ten novels, a mixed volume of media essays and short fiction, and two collections of essays on digital media, as well as five collections of poems. His first novel, The War Outside Ireland, (Riverrun 1982) won the Great Lakes New Writers Award. Remedia: a picaresque (2018) and Disappearance (2012) were both published by Steerage Books. In between these, 2013 saw the first appearance in print of his 1994 online e-book Going the Distance (SUNY Excelsior editions), which was a finalist for the CASEY Award for best baseball book of 2014.  Earlier novels include Was: Annales Nomadique, a novel of internet (Fiction Collective2, 2007); Liam's Going, (McPherson and Co, 2009), Twentieth Century Man (Seismicity, 2014) and Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden (Starcherone Books, 2015).

The poems Light in its Common Place (2020) and A Hagiography of Heaven and Vicinity (2017), both from Broadstone Books; and Biennial (2016) and Paris Views (2012) both published by BlazeVOX.