An award-winning poet, Patricia has published two books of poetry, A Kind of Yellow (first-place winner of Writer’s Digest’s International Chapbook Poetry contest); and the full-length High Lonesome, with themes resonant of Thorns of the Mesquite. She holds a BA from Smith College, PBK, and an MFA from Vermont College for the Fine Arts.
In over 30 years, she led hundreds of creative writing workshops and retreats at her Patchwork Farm mountainside retreat in Westhampton MA, hosted over 40 residencies for writers, led many writing & yoga retreats in Texas, and 70 writing & yoga retreats internationally.
Patricia Lee Lewis was born in Austin, raised in Texas, and moved with her young family to western Massachusetts years ago. Her novel, Thorns of the Mesquite, published by Levellers Press, launched in late 2025. A historic novel set in 1938 on a ranch in West Texas, it’s a wild west tale told from a feminist, civil rights point of view, and is available at Levellers Press, Broadside Bookshop, on Amazon and through your favorite bookstore.
All author’s profits go to those organizations serving victims of domestic violence and those which protect civil rights for all people.
