Joyce Ann Brown is a former library media specialist, now a freelance writer, a short story author, and a published author of CATastrophic Connections, FURtive Investigation, Nine Lifelines, and Tailed, a charming mystery series called "Psycho Cat and the Landlady Mysteries. Her short stories have been published in several online magazines and in an anthology of mysteries, Noir at the Salad Bar: Culinary Tales with Bite.

Joyce considers herself first and foremost a story teller. She remembers telling a story almost every night before her younger sister would fall asleep. She told stories to her children, too, and to her students. Later, she became a professional story teller and used stories to teach and to entertain when she was a school librarian. Now Joyce writes books and short stories, plays tennis, and walks the trails of the Kansas City Metro with her walking buddies.