Featured Writers
Joyce Dyer
Joyce Dyer is John S. Kenyon Professor of English at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.
Dyer is the author of four books, The Awakening: A Novel of Beginnings (1993),
In a Tangled Wood: An Alzheimer's Journey (1996), Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town (2003),
and Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood (2010), and the editor of Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by
Appalachian Women Writers (1998).
She has published essays in magazines such as North American Review, Cream City Review, and High Plains Literary Review, and in anthologies such as After the Bell, Body Outlaws, We All Live Downstream, and Educating the Imagination.
Dyer has won numerous awards for her writing, including the 1998 Appalachian Book of the Year Award, the 2009 David B. Saunders Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Best of Ohio Writers Award in Essay, and was co-winner of a chapbook contest sponsored by Word of Mouth Books and Seems. Her most recent book, Goosetown, was named a finalist for the 2011 Ohioana Book Award.
She recently served as visiting writer in creative nonfiction for the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (NEOMFA) and serves on the staffs of numerous writing workshops in the summers, including the Antioch Writers' Workshop, the Appalachian Writers Workshop, The Twenty: A Kentucky Young Writers Advance, and 826michigan. Dyer is at work on a long project about abolitionist John Brown, as well as two collections of essays.
Hailey Leithauser
Hailey Leithauser's work appears widely in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Antioch Review,
Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, Best American Poetry, on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and in numerous other publications.
She is a recipient of the Discovery/The Nation award, the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award, the Virginia Center for Art of the Book Prize and a Individual Artist's Grant from the MD State Arts Council. She currently lives in Silver Spring MD where she coordinates the Cafe Muse reading series.