Patricia Bookman

Patricia Bookman is a published author and award-winning writer and poet.  She has a B.A. in English with a minor in Shakespeare, and an M.Ed. with a focus on ESL.  She is from New York but lived in Italy for 13 years.  She has visited many European countries, as well as Japan.  She was Public Affairs Officer for the Navy Exchange, as well as having created the first Word Processing Center.  She taught English for 13 years and is now retired.