Publications
Closet Wars
Pat’s essay on Appalachian dialect and three of her May Dean and Ida short stories have been published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers. Two won awards in the West Virginia Fiction Competition, with Dorothy Allison and Barbara Kingsolver as final judges.
Another May Dean and Ida short story won an award in the social change category judged by Crystal Wilkinson for the West Virginia Writers Inc. Pat’s fiction and nonfiction also won awards from Wyoming Writers Inc.
The Printer’s Kiss
Pat’s book, The Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family, was published by Kent State University Press in their Civil War in the North Series.
The story of Pat's great-great grandparents reads like a novel and received many positive reviews. What means the most to Pat, however, is what her ancestors’ lives said about them. Regardless of the news of the day, they believed that things could change for the better.
