Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate from December 2006 to March 2009, is the author of six collections of poetry. Her newest book is Then, Something (Tupelo Press, fall 2009). Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit ( Tupelo Press, 2005) won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award judged by Mary Oliver. Her book, Small Songs of Pain (Pecan Grove Press, 2003)is a collection of poems triggered by Chagall's illustrations of LaFontaine's fables . In addition she has published 2 chapbooks: Lives of Others, Oyster River Press, 2003 and Greatest Hits, Pudding House press. (photo to the right taken by Jane Billings)

“Pat”, a retired social worker has been the recipient of a Macdowell Colony fellowship and is a frequent resident at the Dorset Writer's Colony and Wellspring House. A past Associate editor of The Worcester Review, she has been on the resident faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College and privately. She’s been the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Arts, and has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 5 Pushcart nominations. She was twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards. A graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, CT, The Hartford College for Women, and the UCONN School of Social Work, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, North American Review, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, etc. A member of the NH Writer’s Project and a Touring Artist for the NH Art’s Council, she resides in Walpole, NH.

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