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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Rockville, MD

Maryland US

Bio:

Patricia Davis-Muffett (she/her) holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her chapbook, alchemy of yeast and tears, is forthcoming from Alabaster Leaves Press in Winter 2023. Her work has won numerous honors including honorable mention in the 2021 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, and has appeared in Atlanta Review, Pretty Owl Poetry, Quartet Journal, Calyx and Comstock Review, among others. She lives in Rockville, Maryland, and makes her living in technology marketing.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Favorite authors:

Sharon Olds, Linda Pastan, Toni Morrison, Billy Collins, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov

Twitter/X:

@triciadm

Born in:

NJ

New Jersey

Raised in:

NJ

New Jersey

Website:

https://www.patriciadavismuffett.com [2]

Prizes won:

"On Looking Away" was included in Best New Poets 2023

"The Ocean Explains Herself" was nominated for Best of the Net 2022

"Motherless Gautur considers the Taj Mahal," Second Place, Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Competition, 2022

"The Province of Mothers" won First National Honorable Mention, Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Competition, 2021

"On Looking Away" won an Honorable Mention in Comstock Review's 2021 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Contest

Finalist, Jessie Bryce Niles chapbook competition (Comstock Review), 2021

"Wild Child," Finalist, Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize, 2020

Education:

University of Minnesota

Identifies as:

American