Oona Patrick
Oona Patrick is the coeditor of Behind the Stars, More Stars: The Tagus/Disquiet Collection of New Luso-American Writing (Tagus Press/UMass Press, 2019). She earned an MFA in nonfiction from Bennington, and has taught memoir for Gotham Writers' Workshop. Her writing has appeared in Gávea-Brown, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Hinchas de Poesía, Paragraph, Post Road, Provincetown Arts, The Puritan, Salamander, and in The Common's October 2020 Lusophone Portfolio. Her work has been reprinted as a model essay in the writing textbook The Text-Wrestling Book (UMass Writing Program, 2005) and has been translated into Portuguese in the anthology Nem Cá Nem Lá: Portugal e América do Norte Entre Escritas (Edlp, 2016). She has had Notable Essay mentions in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing and is a 2014 Fellow in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She guest edited Springhouse 6, an issue featuring writing by women in translation from Portuguese.
After traveling to Portugal for residencies in 2006 and 2009, she began serving as Luso-American Liaison for the Dzanc Books/CNC DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon during its formation in 2010. She is one of the cofounders of Presence/Presença, the first community for North American writers of the Portuguese and Lusophone diasporas. A former literary nonfiction editor for Post Road, she has worked as a senior layout and photo editor for numerous reference works and specialized encyclopedias from publishers such as SAGE, and now works in children’s and YA book production.
After traveling to Portugal for residencies in 2006 and 2009, she began serving as Luso-American Liaison for the Dzanc Books/CNC DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon during its formation in 2010. She is one of the cofounders of Presence/Presença, the first community for North American writers of the Portuguese and Lusophone diasporas. A former literary nonfiction editor for Post Road, she has worked as a senior layout and photo editor for numerous reference works and specialized encyclopedias from publishers such as SAGE, and now works in children’s and YA book production.
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Notable Essay, The Best American Travel Writing 2005
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making national figures out of friendly neighbors, and sometimes vice versa. This particular neighbor has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and today she is often described as the best-selling poet in the country.
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Notable Essay, The Best American Travel Writing 2005
making national figures out of friendly neighbors, and sometimes vice versa. This particular neighbor has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and today she is often described as the best-selling poet in the country.