Veronica Patterson

Veronica Patterson is a graduate of Cornell University, the University of Michigan, the University of Northern Colorado, and Warren Wilson College where she received an MFA in Creative Writing. Her first poetry collection, How to Make a Terrarium, was published by Cleveland State University in 1987. Her poetry collection Swan, What Shores? was a finalist for the 2000 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, a co-winner of the annual poetry award from the Colorado Center for the Book, and won the annual poetry award given by Women Writing the West. She has also published a chapbook, This is the Strange Part, and a collection pf poetry and photography, The Bones Remember: A Dialogue, with photographer Ronda Stone. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including The Southern Poetry Review, The Louisville Review, The Sun, The Madison Review, and others. Her essay, "Comfort Me with Apples" appeared in the Spring 1997 Georgia Review. She has been a resident at the Ucross Foundation, has received Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts, and has participated in the Artist-in-Residence program in Rocky Mountain National Park.