Joel Wayne

Public Programs Manager

Joel manages The Cabin’s public facing programs, helming Readings & Conversations, The Cabin Presents series, Writers in the Attic, and the Boise City Writer-in-Residence. Joel also co-runs adult writing workshops with Hillary Colton, The Cabin’s education programs manager. He holds a BA in English from the University of Montana, a pre-professional certificate in Speech-Language Pathology from Idaho State University, and he attended the MFA program in creative writing at Boise State University.

In addition to his role with The Cabin, Joel produces programs for public radio, including You Know The Place, Reader’s Corner, and Something I Heard, the latter featuring writers sharing short poetry and prose on a monthly theme. Joel's written work can be read in The Independent, The Moth, Salon, and elsewhere. He is the recent recipient of a Fellowship in Performing & Media Arts from Arts Idaho, a facilitator of the Boise chapter of Death Café, and minder to a pair of used kitties, a rescue water rower, and a spouse who’s talked him into ghost tours in a half-dozen states. Some of his favorite authors include Alice Munro, James Baldwin, and Beverly Cleary.