Joya Taft-Dick

About The Author

Joya Taft-Dick is a writer and communications professional with expertise in the field of gender. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, The Guardian, Global Post, Mic, Global Citizen, Safe, On Tap, Foyer, and Anchor magazines and she holds two master’s degrees, one from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and one in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. A craft beer enthusiast and the editor of On Tap, South Africa’s first and only beer magazine, Joya currently lives in Cape Town with her husband, Chris, daughter, Ava, and cheeky chihuahua mix, Hildi. 

Books by Joya Taft-Dick

My Mother's Erasure

A Memoir

By Joya Taft-Dick
For fans of Alexandra Fuller’s Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, a daughter’s story of watching her mother’s itinerant and international life descend into addiction—and her own journey to recognize that she is powerless to save her.
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