Patricia Barone published her fifth book, The Music of this Ruin, with Taj Mahal Press. Your Funny, Funny Face, was published by Blue Light Press. A previous collection, The Scent of Water, is from the same press. New Rivers Press published her first book of poetry, Handmade Paper, and a novella, The Wind. Her short stories have been published by Wising Up Press, Peter Lang, Prentice/Merrill, Plume/Penguin, American Writing and West Wind Review. She has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction in poetry, a Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Award for a short story, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant for a workshop with the Irish poet, Eavan Boland.