Patricia Wild’s full-time writing career began in 1998 when her novel, Swimming In It, was published by Flower Valley Press, Gaithersburg, MD. For many years, she had taught adult learners at the Somerville Center for Adult Learning Experiences; Swimming In it is based on the stories her homeless students had told her. A bi-monthly columnist for The Somerville Journal for the past ten years, she is presently writing the sequel to Swimming In It, entitled Welling Up, and revising her play, “Not for Nothing.” She recently completed the web-based companion to Way Opens, www.tiljusticerolls.com, which tells the story of Lynchburg, Virginia’s civil rights movement. Her short stories have appeared in Wilderness House Literary Review, Out of the Blue Writers Unite: An Anthology and Peeks and Valleys: A New England Fiction Journal. Her poetry has been published in P&Q Press and the Ibbetson Street Press. 

A member of Friends Meeting at Cambridge, a mother and grandmother, Patricia lives with her husband in Somerville, Massachusetts.