Patricia Michael Morimando Patricia Michael Morimando was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up on Oneida Lake, north of Syracuse. From an early age, Pat drew and painted; she was an art student all through her early schooling, and attended Syracuse University School of Fine Arts after graduating from high school.
She moved to New York City when she was twenty-two and met her husband there (a jazz musician). She has written poetry on and off most of her life, but has focused exclusively on it for the past five years, and has self-published six chapbooks as well as edited and published other poets' work. Pat leads the Jefferson Market Library poetry workshop and helped publish two of the group's chapbooks.... To continue click 'Read Bio'