Patricia Averbach began her writing career at sixteen as literary assistant to Anzia Yeszierska, the Jewish-American author of the immigrant experience.  A native Clevelander, she’s a former director of The Chautauqua Writers Center. Her third novel, Dreams of Drowning (Bedazzled Ink, 2024), was a finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books and Chanticleer’s Somerset Award for Literary Fiction. Previous novels include Painting Bridges (Bottom Dog Press, 2013) and Resurrecting Rain (Golden Antelope Press, 2020) which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry chapbook, Missing Persons, (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) won the London based Lumen/Camden prize and was cited by Times of London Literary Supplement (November 2014) as one of the best small collections of the year. Her work appears in the anthology 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium. She lives with her husband in Beachwood, Ohio when she’s not visiting her daughters in Toronto, Maui and Peru.


Visit Patricia’s website: ​https://www.patriciaaverbach.com/





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