Veronica Patterson is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Cornell University, the University of Michigan, the University of Northern Colorado, and the Warren Wilson College MFA program. Her poetry collections are How to Make a Terrarium (Cleveland State University, 1987); Swan, What Shores? (New York University Press, 2000), which was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets' 2000 James Laughlin Award and won poetry awards from both the Colorado Center for the Book and Women Writing the West; Thresh & Hold, which won the Gell Poetry Prize and was published in November 2009. Thresh & Hold was a finalist for the 2010 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has also published a chapbook of prose poems This Is the Strange Part (Pudding House Publications) and a collection of poetry and photography, The Bones Remember: A Dialogue, with photographer Ronda Stone. Her poems "Around the Block of the World" and "The Samovar" co-won the 2006 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. Patterson has been awarded artists' residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Rocky Mountain National Park, Hedgebrook, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Gell Center. She has received Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Colorado Council on the Arts.

Books by Veronica Patterson:

Other poems on the web by Veronica Patterson:
Four poems
"Marry Me"
"A Charm Against the Language of Politics"
"Combing"

Veronica Patterson's Website.

About Sudden White Fan:

"In language spare yet elegant, stylish with a sly wit, Veronica Patterson wryly observes the world around her: the domestic, the everyday, the natural world. A gentle yet keen humor emanates from the stories there poems tell and the stories' revelation of how 'pain abrades into self-knowledge.' 'nothing' is life, love, death. How modest the poet is! Is she really 'a wing, not flight,' or is she instead a wing as it fans out to lift into flight and to astonish the onlooker?"
—Mary Crow