A prize winner in the 2012 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story contest, Joyce Lekas has short stories included in two anthologies. A writer of non fiction for many years, Leka...view moreA prize winner in the 2012 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story contest, Joyce Lekas has short stories included in two anthologies. A writer of non fiction for many years, Lekas recently turned her hand to fiction. In her professional career, both in Silicon Valley, California and in Oregon, Lekas ghostwrote and published extensively in the analytical and electronics press and edited and published several technical books. She retired to the Southwest, and now lives in Oregon.Lekas has worked in oceanography, metallurgy, teaching, government agencies and corporate America. She has run two businesses, raised four children on her own and traveled extensively.Avocations include weaving, watercolor painting, travel, hiking, general exploring, reading and writing.view less