Patricia Cumbie writes fiction, essays and creative nonfiction for teens and adults.
As a work in progress, Where People Like Us Live won a SASE/Jerome Foundation Fellowship and a Loft Fiction Mentor Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowship, and writing residencies at Ragdale and Norcroft. The work was also nominated for inclusion in Best New American Voices and was a finalist for a Rona Jaffe award in 2002. The book was also chosen by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) as one of their best of YA literature “Choices” for 2009.
Patricia Cumbie’s writing has appeared in many literary journals and also in the anthologies The Leap Years and Stories from Inside the Mirror. Her adult nonfiction won the Carol Bly Award for Nonfiction from Bemidji State University. She’s also worked as a consultant and professional writer in the natural food industry.
Travel and dance studies have led her to learn about the world’s cultures through its food and music. Most days around dinner time you can find Patricia in her kitchen mincing fresh herbs, sautéing garlic in olive oil, and prepping meats and vegetables.
Carrying dishes between the kitchen and dining room, she likes to do a little shimmy to the music playing on the stereo.
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