Joyce Dyer

John S. Kenyon Professor of English

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"The Awakening": A Novel of Beginnings (Twayne, MacMillan, 1993)
In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey (Southern Methodist University Press, 1996)
Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers (University of Kentucky Press, 1998)
Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town (University of Akron Press, 2003)
My Mother's Singer (Word of Mouth Books, 2009)
Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood (University of Akron Press, 2010)
Essays in magazines such as North American Review, High Plains Literary Magazine, Seventeen, cream city review, Stoneboat and Southern Literary Journal
Essays in books, including Politics, Gender, and the Arts; Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South; After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School; What's Normal: Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism; Body Outlaws; We All Live Downstream; Chance; Motif Volume 2: Come What May (Writings About Chance); Motif Volume 3: All the Livelong Day (An Anthology of Writings About Work)

Reading at Wright State University (2012)
Featured Writer, Great Lakes Writers Festival, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (2011)
Visiting Writer at Muskingum University (2011)
Nonfiction Instructor, The Twenty: A Kentucky Writers Advance (summer 2011)
Workshop Leader at 826michigan Writers Conference, Ann Arbor (summers of 2011 and 2012)
Visiting Writer, VOICES Reading Series, St. Mary's College of Maryland (2010)
Visiting Writer at Appalachian State University (2009)
Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, Creative Nonfiction Lecture (2007, 2009)
Writers Series, Otterbein College (2007)
Writer-in-residence at the Antioch Writers' Workshop (Memoir), Yellow Springs, Ohio (Summer 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011)
Eleanor Mincks Wolf Lecturer, Mount Union College (2005)
Featured speaker at the 5th Annual Akron Traditions, E.J. Thomas Hall (2004)
Speaker at Author, Author luncheon, Akron (October 2003)
Workshop leader at 2003 Wright State Institute on Writing and Teaching
Writer-in-residence at the 22nd, 25th, 26th, 30th, and 35th Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky

Goosetown named a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award (2011)
David B. Saunders Award in Creative Nonfiction (cream city review, 2009, Judged by Lee Martin)
Co-winner of a chapbook sponsored by Word of Mouth Books (2009)
NEOMFA Visiting Writer (2007)
Vencl-Carr Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)
Distinguished Alumna Award, Kent State University English Department (2004)
Gum-Dipped selected as required reading for all in-coming freshmen at University of Akron (2004)
Pushcart nominations in essay (2001, 2006, 2009, 2011)
Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Individual Artists Grant from the Ohio Arts Council (1997)
Michael Starr Award for Teaching Excellence, Hiram College (1996)

I am working on two collections of essays with the tentative titles Funeral Home and Makeover, as well as a book about John Brown.

(Complete biography may be found in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision)