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BIOGRAPHY Dr. Pat Spencer has a lifetime of experience publishing fiction and nonfiction. Her historical fiction novel, Golden Boxty in the Frypan, inspired by her mother’s coming-of-age experiences during the 1930s, is published with Pen It Publications. Her textbook is published by Milady/Cengage Learning. Pat also indie-published A Baker’s Dozen For Writers: 13 Tips for Great Storytelling and Story of a Stolen Girl, an International thriller. Her literary fiction trilogy, Sticks in a Bundle, is contracted for a three-book debut.
Pat’s short story, A Healing Place, won the 2019 Oceanside Literary Festival. Other short stories and articles are published in journals such as the Literary Yard, Scarlet Leaf Review, Potato Soup Journal, Almost an Author, Vine Leaves Press, and Academy of the Heart and Mind, and in a California Writers Circle anthology. Pat authored a column in the Press-Enterprise newspaper and served as a columnist and contributing editor to Inland Empire Magazine.
She lived in three countries and seven states. Pat loves to travel and spent time in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Spain, France, Croatia, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, Greece, Mexico, the Galapagos, and the Bahamas, as well as Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands and road-tripping across the continental United States several times. She enjoys getting to know people and learning about their culture.
Dr. Spencer, a retired professor and community college president, lives in Southern California with her husband. She speaks to service and community organizations on human trafficking, writing processes, and her books. When not writing, Pat golfs, reads, walks the beach, hangs out with family and friends, or frequents book clubs and writing critique groups.
