Joyce Hackett is a writer living in the Berkshires.  Her fiction and essays have been published in 17 countries, including in Harpers, The Guardian, The Independent, The Paris Review, London Magazine, Die Welt, Der Tagespiegel, and on NPR.  Her widely acclaimed novel, Disturbance of the Inner Ear, won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She’s been awarded fellowships at the American Academy Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for the Arts and Sciences, the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Schloss Wiepersdorf. She has taught creative writing in Germany, the UK, and at multiple universities in the U.S., including George Washington University, where she was the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence. Her novel-in-progress, Reconstruction, explores the ways that the suffrage and abolition movements collaborated and competed.

Joyce Hackett is also an activist, and the creator of several large scale public education projects, including Washington Write-a-Story Day.  She founded Lift+Every+Vote, an organization whose volunteers designed and sent over 1.3 million voter registration postcards, before the 2020 elections, to unregistered voters in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. LEV offers ordinary citizens concrete, non-partisan opportunities to help protect our democracy's critical infrastructure.  Over 9,000 activists, in 22 states, have contributed to its projects. Hackett also served as the statewide organizer for MA’s successful Automatic Voter Registration campaign. Her mission as an activist is to leave behind universal suffrage.