Patricia ward biography

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Patricia Ward was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, moving to the United States when she was eighteen. She is the author of The Bullet Collection (Graywolf Press, 2003) and Skinner Luce (Talos Press, 2016). Ward is also a book artist specializing in miniature books and dioramas. She lives with her family in Vermont. The Cherished is her first young adult novel.

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In 2016 you published Skinner Luce, your first fantasy novel about a “serv,” born of aliens but indistinguishable from humans living in modern-day Boston. What drew you to the fantasy genre?

Well, it’s sort of odd how all that started, but it was really because of my husband. He did his duty and read The Bullet Collection and all my short stories and poems, of course, but in the end he’s just not a ‘literary’ fiction reader. He’s always liked fantasy. I found the fantasy books he was reading to be pretty bad, so I decided to write something better for him. So that’s how it started in my writing life as a grownup, but in truth, I was writing fantasy long ago. All my stories as a kid were rooted in fantasy, with magic and witches and alternate worlds/histories and so on. There isn’t space for that in writing programs (anything other than ‘literary’ is considered genre trash—at least that’s how it was back when I was in workshops), so I tamped down my impulses for years until my husband brought me back around to where I prefer to be. I wrote a fantasy epic for him—worked on it for years—but couldn’t get it published. That was a big downer, but he LOVES it, so a win. Then I wrote a