Patricia Valdata

Pat Valdata is a poet and novelist with an MFA in writing from Goddard College. Her fiction publications include two novels, Crosswind and The Other Sister, which won a gold medal from the Árpád Academy in 2008. She also has two poetry books, Where No Man Can Touch (winner of the 2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize) and Inherent Vice, and the chapbook Looking for Bivalve. She is a past recipient of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Valdata is an adjunct professor who teaches creative writing for the University of Maryland Global Campus and the Salisbury University Center for Extended and Lifelong Learning. Valdata has judged creative writing competitions in poetry and fiction. She has read her work in Washington, DC; Lewes, DE; Newark, DE; Annapolis, MD; Bethesda, MD; Columbia, MD; Elkton, MD; New Brunswick, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; West Chester, PA; and Amherst, VA.