Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is editor and author Caroline Patterson from Missoula, Montana.
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Patterson has written travel pieces and essays for a variety of publications, including Newsday, Outside, Seventeen, Sunset, and VIA.
A Stegner Fellow in Fiction from Stanford University, she has received fellowships from the Henfield Foundation, the Montana Arts Council, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Patterson recently published Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, a collection of women's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Patterson works as an editor for FarCountry Press in Helena, Montana.
From Sunset magazine:"Driving the big sky: one mom, two kids, and 500 miles of Montana backroads add up to an unforgettable vacation"
Article from AmericanProfile.com: Lewistown, Montana
Caroline Patterson biography on the VIA Web site
FYI: Information About Recently Published Books
If you like fiction, look for The Hearts of Horses, by Molly Gloss from Portland, Oregon.
From the FarCountry Press “Explorer” series, Digging Up Dinosaurs, by Jack Horner, Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana.
For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.
And consider this comment from Thomas Carlyle: “The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.
Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.
Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Prageeta Sharma, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.
This program is supported in part by The Greater Montana Foundation—encouraging communication on issues, trends, and values of importance to Montanans. And by Humanities Montana, enriching intellectual, cultural, and civic life for all Montanans.
This program included music by Michael Blessing, Stuart Weber, and Springhill.
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