My Blazing World

Born at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital, Patricia Brody graduated from White Plains High School and Sarah Lawrence College. Her first writing teacher was Grace Paley. She received an MSW from Columbia University and a Masters in English Literature from City College of New York. She lived in Vienna and San Francisco where she worked as a journalist. Her interview with blues singer Bonnie Raitt became the first woman-on-the-cover story for Guitar Player Magazine. Brody and her husband have raised three children one block from the Hudson River. Patricia Brody's first poetry collection, American Desire, was selected by Finishing Line Press for a 2009 New Women's Voices Award. Her second collection, DANGEROUS TO KNOW, from Salmon Poetry (Ireland) was published in March 2013. Awards include two Pushcart nominations; English Speaking Union of New York, 1st Prize for a poem; Jack Zucker Memorial Prize and two Academy of American Poets prizes. Brody works as a family & couples therapist in New York City and teaches SEEKING YOUR VOICE: a Poetry Workshop, at Barnard College Center for Research on Women. She taught English comp and American Literature for many years at Boricua College in Harlem.