Patricia Farrell lives in rural Oregon. Trained as a biologist and landscape architect, she received a certificate of creative writing from Linfield University.  Her poems have been published in Paper Gardens, Camas Literary Journal, and Verseweavers. In 2023 she won first place in the New Poets category of the Oregon Poetry Association contest.  She writes to capture memories, mental meanderings, and the wonders and despairs of living in this beautiful world.