Patricia has a new story in the most recent issue of Glimmer Train. She has stories forthcoming in Freight Stories and The Seattle Review. Watch Glimmer Train for her essay about writing short stories, "The Potholder Model of Literary Ambition." She will participate this fall (2008) in the Cincinnati Book Festival. Nance and Patricia have put plans for a women's workshop temporarily on hold. Stay tuned! Patricia is working with a few apprentice fiction writers via mail and telephone consultations. If you are writing stories or a novel and you would like to work with her, please email Patricia. The workshop in St. Augustine was a success. We worked hard, had some lovely walks on the beach and, as always, much good conversation. Nance Van Winckel and Patricia will teach a workshop in Spokane June 08. We will place a small ad in Poets and Writers and the AWP Chronicle. The workshop is for writers, men and women, who have earned the MFA but want help shaping and editing their first books. Patricia recommends literary travel organized by Authors-at-Large. In August 2005, Patricia joined the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Visit Website. Buy personalized, signed copies of Patricia's titles. Order through Von's Books. The paperback of In the River Sweet was released on April 12, 2004. In the River Sweet was named a Best Book of 2002 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In the River Sweet was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. In the River Sweet was selected as a BookSense pick for October. In the River Sweet was selected as a Best Fall Book by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In the River Sweet was featured during October by Border's as an Original Voice.		From the author of the National Book Award finalist Hummingbird House comes an emotionally enthralling novel about a family swept up in the rapids of history -- both the social and spiritual upheavals of present-day America and the bitter legacy of the war in Vietnam. In the River Sweet, set in the Midwestern United States, New Orleans, and Saigon, is one Catholic woman’s journey to wholeness, as she struggles to embrace her past, her daughter’s lesbianism, and her own spiritual evolution from fundamentalism to mysticism. Notes on the making of In The River Sweet. Read the author's notes on the development of the novel. For photos of places she visited in Vietnam, click here.