Patsy Brookshire loves stories: reading them, writing them, and telling them. She wrote her first story in the eighth grade, a humor piece. In high school and college journalism she wrote humor and feature pieces, vignettes of peoples' lives. She wrote her first novel, Threads, from an altogether different angle, tangling fiction, family fact, history, and bits of herself together. Into her second novel, she finds humor catching her again. "It is good to laugh at the crazy things we do for love," she says.

Patsy has been married twice, had children twice, had grandchildren four times. She lives on the Oregon coast, beside the ocean and a pond, with John, her second husband, and two or three cats. She had an interesting childhood, complicated adulthood, and now she is into a fascinating third part of life. A cabin in the woods is her favorite place, but a cottage in England is a close second. She is obsessed with quilts, England, and Spring. Someday she would like to follow the blooming of daffodils from March on the Oregon Coast to Maine's rocky shore, as a way to stretch out Spring. She will, of course, write about it.