The Poet and the Poem
2022-23 Series

Featured Pat Valdata

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Pat Valdata is a poet and novelist. Her book about women aviation pioneers, Where No Man Can Touch, won the 2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Her third novel, Eve's Daughters (Moonshine Cove, 2020), won first prize from the Delaware Press Association and received an Honorable Mention from the National Federation of Press Women. Her poetry has appeared in Ecotone, Ekphrastic Review, Italian Americana, Little Patuxent Review, North American Review, Passager, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. In 2021 she received an individual artist award from the Maryland State Arts Council. Pat lives in Crisfield, Maryland, with her husband, Bob Schreiber, and their rescue poodle, Junior. www.patvaldata.com

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