Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing is Dan Roche's third book. His previous ones include the memoirs Love's Labors: A Memoir of Marriage and Divorce (Riverhead, 1998) and Great Expectation: A Father's Diary (Iowa, 2008). His personal essays and journalism have appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Journal, Chautauqua, Under the Sun, Stone Canoe, Iowa Alumni Magazine, and other places. His poetry has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Stone Canoe, and JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 

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Dan grew up on Air Force bases throughout the midwestern United States (with a brief detour in Las Vegas), and has since lived in West Virginia, Arkansas, Antigua, and, since 2001, upstate New York.

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He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Dayton (Ohio), after which he served in the US Peace Corps as a math teacher, and then soon left engineering to work with words rather than with numbers. He went to Ohio State University for an MA in English, worked for two years as a reporter on a small, weekly newspaper, and then completed a MA in Nonfiction Writing and a PhD in English at the University of Iowa.

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Dan is an Associate Professor at Le Moyne College, in Syracuse, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, nonfiction writing, journalism, media ethics, and photography. He currently directs the college's Creative Writing Program. 

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He is an extremely satisfied client of Strauss Eye Prosthetics, Inc., of Rochester, New York. 

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(photo by Matthew Turner)

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