Joylene is Métis from Canada. She began her first novel in 1984 to honour her father’s memory. Today she and her husband spread their time between Canada and Bucerias, Nayarit.

Her first novel Dead Witness was a finalist in the 2012 Global eBook Awards. Suspense thriller Broken But Not Dead won the 2012 IPPY Silver Medal for Canada West. Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries was released on November 1, 2016.

Maski was released on April 18, 2017. The audiobook version of Matowak was released in the summer of 2017. Today Joylene is applying the finishing touches to a new suspense thriller and an epic political novel. She's also working on her first children’s book.