Pat Spears

Pat Spears’s second novel, It’s Not Like I Knew Her was released in July 2016 by Twisted Road Publications. It’s Not Like I Knew Her won a bronze medal in the 2016 Foreword Review Book of the Year Awards. Her debut novel, Dream Chaser, was released in 2014. She has twice received honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition; first in 2013 for her story “Stranger At My Door” and again in 2015 for her story “Free Ride”. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including the North American Review, Appalachian Heritage, Sinister Wisdom, A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Arts Journal, Seven Hills Review, and anthologies titled Law and Disorder from Main Street Rag, Bridges and Borders from Jane’s Stories Press, Saints and Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2012, and Walking the Edge: A Southern Gothic Anthology from Twisted Road Publications.  Her short story “Whelping” was a finalist for the Rash Award and appeared in the 2014 issue of Broad River Review. Pat is working on her third novel and continuing to write short fiction.