Joyce Hinnefeld's research for her novel-in-stories, The Dime Museum, led her down some unexpected paths--including learning about the history of the American dime. Drawing on writing prompts and access to Book and Puppet's intriguing Museum of Money, we will delve into the presence and influence--literal and metaphorical--of those jingling coins in our lives.

Joyce Hinnefeld is the author of the short story collections Tell Me Everything and The Beauty of Their Youth, the novels In Hovering Flight and Stranger Here Below, the novel-in-stories The Dime Museum , and other short stories and essays. She is a part-time Program Facilitator for Shining Light, an organization that provides programming in U.S. prisons; an Emeritus Professor of English at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA; and the founder of the Moravian Writers’ Conference, now the Moravian Story Summit. Find her online at www.joycehinnefeld.com.