My Writing Journey
Words have been my whole life. My mother says I read the telephone directory and newspaper at age two, a preposterous but telling story, because when I was young, there were no books.
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Patricia Carino Pasick
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Patricia Pasick is an Asian-American writer based in Ann Arbor who, after decades of non-fiction writing, is now venturing into long and short form fiction. Formerly a clinical psychologist and family therapist, she began her publishing career with Almost Grown, published by W.W. Norton, which has sold 25,000 copies to date. Other pieces have been published in The Sun. After ten years working in Rwanda, a collaboration with a Rwandan survivor, Celestin Zimulinda, became "For Gloria," a creative nonfiction story in "Memoir (And)." Her themes are almost always about the intergenerational legacies of translocation and trauma. She has drafted one novel, about a romance between two cousins in Nashville, ruptured by an accidental shooting, and is at work on a second, about the deportation of an intermarried Filipino-American couple in the 1920's. A proponent of life-long learning, she workshops with the former editor of TriQuarterly and his students in Chicago.