Patricia Waters
Poet

Patricia Waters was born and reared in Nashville, Tennessee. She took her B.A. in history and English at what is now the University of Memphis. After completing several seasons in field archaelogy in Europe, she returned to complete her M.A. in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was a teacher, journalist, and community activist in Memphis and New Orleans. She returned to Livingston, Tennessee to rear her children, and later moved to Athens. She attended the University of Tennessee-Knoxville to complete her doctorate in English in 1998. After completing a post-doc year in the College of Education, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee libraries in 2003-2004. She she is the author of a collection of poems, The Ordinary Sublime, from Anhinga Press. She lives in Athens, Tennessee and is currently teaching at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa.

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