Her first book, Necessary Light, (Utah State University Press) won the 1999 May Swenson Award. Her latest collection, Small Songs of Pain, will be published, Winter 2004, by Pecan Grove Press. Patricia has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is a Macodowell Fellow. Recent or forthcoming poems in: Mid-American Review, Margie, Passages North, Atlanta Review, Nimrod et. al.