Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley, CA
Brisbane (Australia) Writers’ Conference
Homer (AK) Writers’ Conference
The Faulkner Festival, New Orleans,  LA
Grub Street Writers’ Conference , Boston,  MA
Radcliffe Publishing Course,  Boston,  MA
Baruch College,  NYC,  NY
Florida State University, Tallahassee
University of Florida, Gainesville
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville,  NY
New York University,  NYC,  NY
Ohio University, Columbus
Institute of Native American Studies, Sante Fe,  NM
St Mary’s College, Orinda,  CA

Ann Patty is a member of PEN International

Ann Patty graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1974, Magna Cum Laude in Comparative Literature.  She immediately moved to New York City to work in publishing, which she has done ever since.  She began as a receptionist at Knopf, had a brief stint as an editor with Maurice Girodias at Olympia Press, then buckled down as an assistant at Dell.  In 1976 she moved to Pocket Books as a Senior Editor, where she discovered VC Andrews, one of the biggest successes of the paperback original revolution.  In 1982 she became the youngest editor ever to be given her own imprint when she founded Poseidon Press (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) where she was Publisher and Editorial Director. In 1993 she moved to Crown Publishers, first as Editor at Large, then as Editorial Director.  From 2000-2008, she was Executive Editor at Harcourt.    In 2009, she became a free lance editor, co-writer and book doctor.  She lives in Rhinebeck, New York.