Patricia Clark is the author of North of Wondering, which won the first book award from Women in Literature Press and was published in 1999. She is also the co-editor of Worlds in Our Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Slate, Stand, and the Poets Against the War anthology. In 2003, she received a grant from ArtServe Michigan and was also awarded a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. Other awards include The Mississippi Review Poetry Award in 1996, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1990, an award from the Fine Lines/Oil of Olay Contest co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America in 2004, and residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation.

Patricia Clark grew up in Tacoma, Washington, later graduating from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Economics. Her other degrees include an M.F.A. from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Houston. She teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where she is Professor in the Department of Writing and the university's poet-in-residence. In her role at GVSU, Patricia coordinates the fall Poetry Night readings which have featured Billy Collins, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rita Dove, and Charles Wright. She is also the director of GVSU's Writing in Ireland program, which brings students to Trinity College, Dublin and Queens University, Belfast.