avg_rating: 3.93
name: Patricia Wiles
about: My first series of books for middle-grade and young adult readers, about a boy growing up as a Mormon in the south, has been honored twice by the Association for Mormon Letters. I am the Assistant Regional Advisor for the Midsouth region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. My essays have aired on public radio and have appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and The Writer’s Handbook. My work as a newspaper columnist and staff writer has earned awards from the Kentucky Press Association. My husband and I have two daughters, a son, and a cat. All have left the nest but the cat; he refuses to move out and get his own place.