: About Me

Patricia Louisa Mae Jones was born in 1972, in San Diego, California. She wrote her first poetry in High School to the man she would marry just days after graduation. Their eighteen year marriage has been blessed with three children, a son, Kyle, and two daughters, Heather and Brandi. They now reside in Mexico, Missouri while Patricia continues her education in nearby Columbia.

Following graduation with honors and a BFA in Creative Writing from Stephens College, Patricia attends the University of Missouri at Columbia, working on her Master of Arts in Composition and Rhetoric.

She has had her prose and poetry published in literary magazines across the country, in print and online, as well as in magazines and news publications. In 2007 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry for her poem Doctor Kennedy.

My passion is ...

Teaching

I know too much about ...

proof reading

My parents always told me ...

to learn from other's mistakes. I should have listened better...

My childhood ambition ...

was to travel around the world. I'm working on getting off this continent still.

My favorite memory ...

is of saying "I do."

Why I write ...

it gives me a renewed sense of control in a crazy life.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

John Bean's Engaging Ideas. Just fabulous.

My first job ...

was checking in new parts at the Autoparts store.

My best moment ...

was listening to my first born son take his first breath.

My inspiration ...

comes from my students and family.

Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Traveling mishaps

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Directional Sense Alright, so you want to know about this thing I call my internal compass, or rather... the vacuum that occupies the space where it's supposed to be. Let me start with a simple example. About two years ago, I got lost in my own kitchen. It's not as impossible as it sounds. Ask anyone you know who's been applying to graduate school. It started out simple enough. I went in there to get a cup of coffee but the pot was obscured from view by the reminder to send in my summer transcripts. Of course, summer classes wouldn't be over for another week. It never occurs to me, until a...

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