Patty Dickson Pieczka

Patty Dickson Pieczka is a poet based in Carbondale, Illinois, who grew up in Evanston and studied creative writing at Southern Illinois University. Her second book, Painting the Egret's Echo, won the Library of Poetry Book Award from Bitter Oleander Press in 2012. She has also published a chapbook, several full-length collections, and a novel, and her poems have appeared in many literary journals. Her other honors include the Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award (2010) and the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest prize in 2014. Her third book, Beyond the Moon's White Claw, won the David Martinson Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press.