Patricia Thrushart writes poetry and biographies from her home in the Pennsylvania Wilds. Her fifth and latest book of poems, Goddesses I Have Known, was put out by QPC Publishing with proceeds benefiting a local domestic violence shelter, Clarion County SAFE. Her previous collection, Inspired By Their Voices: Poetry From Underground Railroad Testimony was originally published by Mammoth Books. Republished by QPC Publishing, it benefits the Scholarship Fund of Poets Against Racism & Hate USA. Most recently, Patricia was the editor of an anthology of poems about birds, Beak, Bone & Feather. Proceeds from the sale of the book benefits the Seneca Rocks Audubon Society of Clarion PA. Patricia’s poems have been published in numerous journals. She is co-editor of the anthology series for North/South Appalachia and co-founder of the group Poets Against Racism & Hate USA. In 2021 her work was chosen for an award-winning anthology of Ohio Appalachian voices, I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing. She’s had poems included in the “Women of Appalachia Speaks” series. Her narrative nonfiction book, Cursed: The Ancestry, Life and Death of Marion Alsobrook Stahlman, Second Edition, was published in February 2025 by QPC Publishing. Her biography of Gilbert Ball, an influential Black poitician operating in Gilded Age Philadelphia, hit the shelves in November of 2025.
Patricia is a member of the Author’s Guild.
