Fridley, Minnesota

Patricia Barone

Patricia Barone has poetry in To Sing Along the Way, Minnesota women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present, New Rivers Press, 2006. She has published a book of poetry, Handmade Paper, and a novella, The Wind, with New Rivers Press. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in periodicals such as Commonweal, Milkweed Chronicle, The Seattle Review, Tendril, Visions International, and the Widener Review. She was a twice a semifinalist for the William Wisdom Faulkner Novel award (Pirates alley in New Orleans) and a long list finalist for the Fish Publications (West Cork, Ireland) novel award. In 1994 Handmade Paper was nominated for a Minnesota book award. She received a Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant and a Loft-McKnight award in poetry. She has worked as a teacher, nurse, free lance writer and medical writer, and lives with her husband along the Mississippi River in Fridley, Minnesota.