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CONTACT

pvaldata@zoominternet.net

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Patricia Valdata
Elkton, Maryland

BIO

Patricia Valdata received an MFA in writing from Goddard College in 1991. She received Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards for poetry in 2001 and 2003. Her newest work is The Other Sister (Plain View Press, 2008), a novel. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Thanal Online, Big Bridge, Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008) and North American Review. You can read about how Pat’s poetry and fiction writing complement one another at Public Republic and learn more about The Other Sister at YouTube

Pat is an adjunct associate professor for the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). For more information, please see cloudstreetcomm.com

PUBLICATIONS

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BOOKINGS

2009

April
Reading from Letters to the World, an anthology by Red Hen Press, at the National Museum of the Women in the Arts in Washington, DC

    POEM

Looking for Bivalve

An osprey nest, prominent
In a tree above the salt marsh

The salt marsh, for miles,
Reeds, cattails, ice

An oyster-packing plant,
A rotting pier

A sign pointing to Shellpile
A single blue heron.

This map must be wrong.


© 2002 Patricia Valdata

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