Patricia Ann McNair

Patricia Ann McNair has lived 95 percent of her life in the Midwest. She's managed a gas station, served as a medical volunteer in Honduras, sold pots and pans door to door, tended bar and breaded mushrooms, worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and taught aerobics. McNair's work has appeared in various anthologies, magazines, and journals including American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers , The Rumpus , Barrelhouse , The Nervous Breakdown ,...See more

Patricia Ann McNair has lived 95 percent of her life in the Midwest. She's managed a gas station, served as a medical volunteer in Honduras, sold pots and pans door to door, tended bar and breaded mushrooms, worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and taught aerobics. McNair's work has appeared in various anthologies, magazines, and journals including American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers , The Rumpus , Barrelhouse , The Nervous Breakdown , Superstition Review , LitHub , Hypertext , River Teeth , Fourth Genre , Brevity , Creative Nonfiction , and others. She's received numerous Illinois Arts Council Awards, Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and a Finalist Award for Prose from the Society of Midland Authors. An Associate Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, McNair facilitates adult writing workshops and is the Artistic Director of Interlochen College of Creative Arts' Writers Retreat. She lives in Tucson with her husband, visual artist Philip Hartigan, and a yard visited by feral cats. Also by Patricia Ann McNair: And These Are the Good Times , essays Responsible Adults , stories See less