Gare Joyce has written for ESPN The Magazine and espn.com for the last six years and has been a columnist with the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen. Seven of Joyce's stories have appeared on the "notable list" in the Best American Sports Writing Series. He has won four National Magazine Awards and been a finalist 20 times in categories ranging from sports to science, politics to arts, and column-writing to memoir. Joyce is the author of five books.