and his experiences inspired Dyer to write Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town. Dyer's mother was a clerk for the Board of Education in Akron. Dyer graduated with a B.A. in English from Wittenberg University and a Ph.D. in English from Kent State University. She taught at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, and Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, where she held the John S. Kenyon Chair in English. In addition to publishing six books, she is the author of numerous essays that have appeared in periodicals such as North American Review, Writer's Chronicle, and the New York Times, as well as many anthologies. She has run workshops throughout the Appalachian South and Midwest and served on staff at such programs as 826michigan Writers Conference in Ann Arbor, The Twenty: A Kentucky Writers Advance, the Antioch Writers' Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky, the Wright State University Institute on Writing and Teaching in Dayton, Ohio, and the Highland Summer Conference in Radford, Virginia. A few years ago she served as visiting writer in creative nonfiction for the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (NEOMFA). She lives with her husband, Daniel Osborn Dyer, in Hudson, Ohio. Bibliography Personal memoirs (1996) In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey (2003) Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town (2010) Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood Other nonfiction (1993) The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings (2022) Pursuing John Brown: On the Trail of a Radical Abolitionist Edited collections (1998) Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers (2016) From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines References 1947 births Living people Kent State University alumni Hiram College faculty