Joyce is presently a professional academic and literary translator from Italian. The published books she has translated range from medieval history and art history to contemporary psychology and psychotherapy. In 2017, her translated book of 14th century Tuscan poetry (Andrea Pucci) was published by the British Rencesvals Publications. She recently completed the translation of the novel, The Caravaggio Syndrome, by the art historian and Italian literary scholar, Alessandro Giardino, to be published this Christmas in Italian. Right now she is translating a volume of writings on Gestalt psychotherapy to be published by Routledge. Her own stories have appeared recently in various American and Canadian journals, including The Write Launch.
A Virtuous Man
I lied to her. Again. Will it be the last time? Can I go back and make it all right? I know, you’re always telling me to make up my mind before. Do I want to impress or do I really want to know someone for longer than a week? How come I haven’t learned? Read more.
Graham
“When I lost the woman I loved, I knew it was because she was afraid of me. I saw it in her eyes… the fear….”
This was how I began my first ever face-to-face colloquy with my first ever and only psychotherapist at forty-six years of age. She thought I was talking about my wife from whom I was recently separated. Read more.