Division of Humanities & Social Sciences

Faculty

Patty Kirk
Writer in Residence

Course Syllabi:
Advanced English Grammar
Writing as Christians
English I

Born and educated in California, Patty Kirk received a B.A. in English from the University of California at Irvine and an M.A. in English from Tulane University in New Orleans. She spent the following nine years studying German and Mandarin, teaching English, and writing essays and short stories in Berlin, Beijing, and Hong Kong. She returned to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. She now lives with her family on a farm in Westville, Oklahoma.

See Faculty Excellence for information on Mrs. Kirk’s books: Confessions of an Amateur Believer and Starting from Scratch: Memoirs of a Wandering Cook.