After a university career in the Midwest, Joyce Hicks has joined the many of the Boomer generation who write, do improv, and blog. Her debut novel Escape from Assisted Living and its sequel One More Fox Trot sprang from her interest in the minutiae of family life, particularly at gateways to new stages. Joyce is an ardent observer in public space of the serious, mundane, or hilarious interchanges of families.  Go to www.joycebhicks.com to join conversations about later life and family. Her stories have appeared in Literary Mama, Undeniably Indiana, Passager, Kudzu House, Great Lakes Review, and others. She has appeared at story-telling events in Chicago.