MEMBERSHIPS: California Writers Club, Redwood Branch
ADULT EDUCATION: Writing Coach, City of Rohnert Park - City of Cotati - and Sonoma County Jail, (MADF) Santa Rosa
PUBLICATIONS: Good Housekeeping Magazine; Fate Magazine; Tacoma News Tribune; LaVoz Bilingual Newspaper, Habitat For Humanity; www.Tiny-Lights.org; www.VerbSap.com; To Honor A Teacher, a Jeff Spoden Anthology; More Bridges, the San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology, and Vintage Voices, the Redwood Writers Anthology.
AWARDS: Writer's Digest Annual Competitions, (Non-fiction) 2000, 2003, 2005; Friends of the Library, Sacramento, (Fiction Competition) 2003; East of Eden Writer's Conference Competition, (Non-fiction) 2006; and the San Francisco Writers Conference Competition (Non-fiction) 2007
OXFORD SCHOLAR: Pat is a graduate of the 2007 Creative Fiction Writing Course, The Art of Lying. This 3-Wk course was held at Merton College, University of Oxford, England - July, 2007.