About Patricia
Patricia Lee Lewis has led writing retreats at Patchwork Farm in western Massachusetts since 1992, and internationally since 1996. She celebrates our relationship to the earth as sacred, to writing as a way of finding what is deepest within us, and to teaching writing as a participatory, supportive endeavor. She is excited at the promise these retreats hold for all of us.Patricia holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and completed her undergraduate degree at Smith College, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1970. She is a n affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists, and a member of the Berkshire Writers Room, the Texas Writers League and the American Poetry Society. Her poetry, fiction and feature articles have appeared in a variety of journals & anthologies, The Los Angeles Times, Hampshire Life, and The Boston Sunday Globe. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Berkshire Review, Upstreet, Sanctuary: Magazine of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women, Mad River Press.Winner of Writer’s Digest 13th International’s Self-Published Book Prize for Poetry, A Kind of Yellow has been featured in the Berkshire Review, which nominated her poem, “Two Hundred Wings” for a Pushcart Prize.” She was supported by a grant from the Chester ….
Miniature Theatre of Chester. Her chapbook of poems, A Kind of Yellow won Writer’s Digest’s International competition for self-published books of poetry and is available at the Patchwork Press Shop.
Patricia has spent much of her life as an advocate: for women, for civil rights, for peace, for a healthy environment, for small farms and rural communities, for the arts. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, she moved north years ago with her children. She is a business owner and trail walker, and has been director of several organizations, including women’s centers, community economic development corporations, district congressional offices, and served as an elected county commissioner for four years. In 1985, when she joined Pat Schneider’s Amherst Writers & Artists writing workshop, she finally found the courage to write for others to read.
Patricia is responsible for the writing program at all retreats.
Click here to read “How I Came To Lead Writing Workshops and Changed My Life”
More work by Patricia:
A Kind of Yellow, a chapbook of poems, 2005.
Patchwork Journal - an on-line journal by Patchwork Writers.
Wales - published in Hampshire Life on sacred sites in Wales
Iona - published in Los Angeles Times on the Isle of Iona, Scotland
“To This,” a postered poem: