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I was born and raised in Johnstown, New York, about an hour west of Albany. My early work experience  included blackedging in a Johnstown glove factory, babysitting, and waitressing in a Lake George, New York, restaurant. I earned a BA from the University of New York at Albany and an MA from Columbia University, both in English. After teaching two years at the University of Colorado, I earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in English with a minor in history.  My teaching career since has been at the University of Georgia, where I taught literature and writing. I am married to a fellow UGA professor; we have one son.

In high school and college, I loved writing stories for my sister and our friends, but I focused on academic writing while I was in graduate school and teaching. Now retired, I’ve turned back to that first love, fiction. My short story “Falling” was runner-up in the Atlanta Writers Club’s 2021 Terry Kay Prize for Fiction, and was later published in Knot  Magazine (https://www.knotliteraturemagazine.com/patricia-mcalexander .) I’ve published three prize-winning contemporary romantic-suspense novels with The Wild Rose Press: Stranger in the Storm,  Shadows of Doubt, and The Student in Classroom 6.  My most recent novel is The Last Golden Isle, to be released by Wild Rose in December 2023. 

I love to hear from my readers. Contact me at mcalexanderpatricia@gmail.com . For details about my novels and academic writing, click on the other pages in this website. Stranger in the Storm and a list of my selected Academic Writing is under the label "More."