Patricia Roth Schwartz is a poet, editor, writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, and short plays, gardener, and former prison volunteer, (having facilitated a poetry workshop with inmates for 14 years). She lives in the Finger Lakes Region of central New York state on her thirty-five acre property, Sage-Thyme Haven. Widely published in literary journals including Nimrod, South Carolina Review, Iron Horse, Clackamas Literary Review, Madison Review, and Palo Alto Review, her most recent work appears in Homestead Review, Stone Canoe, and the anthology Trumped!. She has been the recipient of awards from Clackamas, Rochester’s ImageOut, Sow’s Ear, and HeartLodge, plus a Lambda Literary award for a volume of short fiction.