Washington Writers' Publishing House

Patricia Garfinkel

Patricia Garfinkel grew up in and around New York City except for an interval in California. She graduated from New York University in history and political science. From 1963-1965, she lived in Paris, France. Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review, Hollins Critic, Science 83, Washingtonian magazine, Visions International, Negative Capacity and in numerous anthologies. Her chap book, Ram’s Horn, was published in 1980. Her poems have also been translated into Korean and Finnish. Since 1976, she has worked as a science writer at the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives.