Patricia Dienstfrey's publications include a winner of the America Award for Fiction: The Woman Without Experiences (Kelsey Street Press, 1995). She has also written Love and Illustration (a+bend press, 2000) and The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan, 2003), which she co-edited with Brenda Hillman. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, edited by Mary Margaret Sloan (Talisman House, 1997), and The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk, edited by Robert Hass and Jessica Fisher (Heyday Books, 2004). A co-founder of Kelsey Street Press, she lives with her husband, Ted, in Berkeley, California.
(photo credit: Lynda Koolish)Small Salvations
The Woman Without Experience