Patricia Thrushart writes poetry and historical nonfiction. Her fourth and latest book of poems, Inspired By Their Voices: Poems from Underground Railroad Testimonies, was put out by Mammoth Books. Her work appears regularly in The Watershed Journal, a regional literary magazine of Northwestern Pennsylvania, and on the website North/South Appalachia. Her poems have been published in Tiny Seed, Clarion University’s Tobeco,, Still Point Arts Quarterly, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feminine Collective, Curating Alexandria, High Shelf Press, Wood Cat Journal, Muddy River, and Deep Wild Journal. In 2021 her work was chosen for an anthology of Ohio Appalachian voices, and the Women of Appalachia Speaks series . Her narrative nonfiction book, Cursed: The Life and Tragic Death of Marion Alsobrook Stahlman, was published in December 2021 by Adelaide Books. Patricia is a co-founder of Poets Against Racism USA.

More information can be found on her website, www.patriciathrushart.com