Author: Joyce Gibson Roach
JOYCE GIBSON ROACH grew up in Jacksboro, Texas, where her rural roots in ranch country provide much of the substance of her writing in non-fiction, fiction, humorous narrative, musical folk drama and children’s stories. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and member and past president of the Texas Folklore Society, she is also a two-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America and is the winner of the Carr P. Collins Award for non-fiction from the TIL. In her youth, Joyce rode barrel races and she made a fair hand at roundup, as long as she got to stay on horseback.
JOYCE GIBSON ROACH, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and member and past president of the Texas Folklore Society and a fellow in the Texas State Historical Association, is also a two-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America and is the winner of the Carr P. Collins Award for non-fiction from the TIL.
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Works Published by UNT Press
Short Call: Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935-2000
— Vol. 24: of Texas Folklore Society Extra Book
Published: December, 2014 Pages: 160 Features: 15 b&w photos.
The Texas Folklore Society has been publishing a regular volume of folklore research (our PTFS series) for the past several decades. Most of these books are what we call miscellanies, compilations of the works of multiple folklorists, and they feature articles on many types of lore. We’ve also published over twenty “Extra Books,” which are single-author manuscripts that examine a more focused topic. more... about Short Call: Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935-2000
This Place of Memory: A Texas Perspective
Published: April, 1992 Pages: 161 Features: 10 b&w photos.
“These personal essays, poems, fiction… are best savored… amid the quiet comforts of your own special place of memories. It can bring forth tears, as well as smiles, of remembrance and recognition. It can leave you yearning to go home again—to people and places that now live only in your heart.” —Dallas Morning News more... about This Place of Memory: A Texas Perspective
- National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Short Fiction, 1992
The Cowgirls
Published: September, 1990 Pages: 256 Features: 35 b&w photos. Bib.Index.
An important chapter in the history and folklore of the West is how women on the cattle frontier took their place as equal partners with men. The cowboy may be our most authentic folk hero, but the cowgirl is right on his heels. This Spur Award winning book fills a void in the history of the cowgirl. more... about The Cowgirls
Wild Rose: A Folk History of a Cross Timbers Settlement, Keller, Texas
Published: January, 1900 Pages: 144 Features: 85 b&w photos. 26 illus. Bib. Index.
“Joyce Roach’s study of a small northcentral Texas town, Keller, is an excellent example of folk history at its best. At the beginning of the book, she symbolically links the absorption of small Texas towns into the various metroplexes with the disappearance of the wildflowers along Texas highways, in this particular case the wild white rose, also called the Cherokee rose and the Macartney rose. more... about Wild Rose: A Folk History of a Cross Timbers Settlement, Keller, Texas