Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook
Patty Kirkis the author ofConfessions of an Amateur Believer. She is Writer in Residence and an adjunct associate professor of English at John Brown University. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arkansas and has taught and/or studied in Berlin, Beijing, Hong Kong, Boston, New Orleans, and Irvine, California.  She and her family live on a farm in eastern Oklahoma.