About the Author

         After teaching for twenty-six years, Patricia began writing full-time. She has written over 300 educational articles, short stories for children, essays, and memoirs. 

THE RIGHT ADDRESS is her first novel. 

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       Patricia, an adopted only child, credits her father for teaching her the love of words. He was a writer and won an award for his poetry. In 2006, Patricia found her birth family and she now has four siblings. She found out that her sisters and birth mother also did some teaching and writing. 

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         Patricia has two grown sons and two granddaughters.

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       Currently living in Arizona, she and her family have lived in Ohio, Michigan and Chihuahua, Mexico.