Patricia Henley spent five months traveling in Central America and southern Mexico while writing ‘Hummingbird House’. She has published two collections of stories, ‘Friday Night at Silver Star’ and ‘The Secret of Cartwheels’. Carnegie-Mellon University Press published a book of her poems, ‘Back Roads’, in 1996. Her stories have been anthologized in ‘Best American Short Stories’ and ‘The Pushcart Prize Anthology’. ‘Hummingbird House’ is her first novel. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Purdue University.
Patricia Henley spent five months traveling in Central America and southern Mexico while writing ‘Hummingbird House’. She has published two collections of stories, ‘Friday Night at Silver Star’ and ‘The Secret of Cartwheels’. Carnegie-Mellon University Press published a book of her poems, ‘Back Roads’, in 1996. Her stories have been anthologized in ‘Best American Short Stories’ and ‘The Pushcart Prize Anthology’. ‘Hummingbird House’ is her first novel. She teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Purdue University.
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