Joy Fielding (née Tepperman; born March 18, 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress.

As Joy Tepperman, she had a brief acting career, appearing in the film Winter Kept Us Warm (1965) and in an episode of Gunsmoke.

She has said that she prefers to set her novels in "big American cities, [as the] landscape seems best for [her] themes of urban alienation and loss of identity.

She enjoys catching readers off guard with the endings of her stories, but insists that it "isn't what her fiction is about",[6] but rather more about the development of her characters.

"[1] Fielding has been noted as a novelist who is more popular in the United States and foreign countries, rather than in her native Canada.

For example, the novel Kiss Mommy Goodbye was more popular in the States, and See Jane Run in Germany.