Paradise Notes

Patricia Traxler is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction 

writer. A two-time Bunting Poetry Fellow at Radcliffe, she also 

served as Hugo Poet at the University of Montana, Thurber Poet 

at Ohio State, and as visiting writer at many other universities 

around the U.S. Her novel, Blood (St. Martin's/Macmillan) was 

also published in Spanish, German, and Swedish translations, as 

well as in a UK/Ireland edition. Her poetry collection, Naming 

the Fires, received the 2019 Kansas Book Award in Poetry.

Traxler's short stories have won several awards, including 

The Writer's Voice of New York City Award for Short Fiction, 

the Cecil Hackney National Short Story Award, the Georgia 

State University Short Story Award, and in Ireland, The Moth 

Magazine's 2019 Short Story Prize.