Joyce Dyer
Appearance
Joyce Dyer is a scholar and writer of memoirs whose Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town is both a loving portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone tires, its employees, and the City of Akron, Ohio. An earlier memoir was In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey, and she has also edited a collection of essays about place by Appalachian women writers, Bloodroot. Dr. Dyer is professor of English and director of writing at Hiram College in Ohio.