Joyce Dyer
American academic
Joyce Dyer (born Joyce Coyne) is a U.S. writer of nonfiction and former university professor at Hiram College. Born in Akron, Ohio, many of Dyer's works focus on her family and the Ohio experience.
Life
Joyce (Coyne) Dyer was born in Akron, Ohio. Her father, Thomas William Coyne, was a plant supervisor for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and her mother clerked for the Akron Board of Education. Dyer graduated from Wittenberg University (in Springfield, Ohio) with a BA in English and earned a PhD in English from Kent State University. After completing her PhD, Dyer taught English at Lake Forest College, Western Reserve Academy, and then Hiram College, where she was the first director of the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature and held the John S. Kenyon Chair in English for many years. She is currently Professor Emerita of English from Hiram College.
Joyce was married to the late Daniel Osborn Dyer, fellow writer and educator.
Work
Dyer has written six nonfiction books, as well as published numerous essays in magazines and newspapers such as North American Review, the New York Times, Writer's Chronicle, and Southern Literary Journal. She has also edited or co-edited two collections of essays, Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers (1998) and From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines (co-edited, 2016).
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