Patricia Clark is a native of the Pacific Northwest. She has published three books of poetry, a chapbook, and co-edited an anthology of women writers. She has received 2nd prize in the 2005 Nimrod Pablo Neruda competition, the poetry prize from Mississippi Review, and a creative artist grant from ArtServe Michigan.

She Walks Into the Sea (Michigan State University Press, 2009), My Father on a Bicycle (Michigan State University Press, 2005), North of Wondering (Women-In-Literature, 1999)

Worlds in Our Words (Blair Press/Prentice-Hall, 1997)

Arts & Letters, Atlantic Monthly, Cortland Review, Cutbank, Mississippi Review, Nebraska Review, New Criterion, New England Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Poetry, Seattle Review, Slate, Smartish Pace, Stand Magazine