Patricia Traxler

“Bloody good—a compelling and beautifully written novel.” “With her stunning first novel, Blood, Patricia Traxler plunges the reader into a world both familiar and eerie. Seldom have the twin obsessions of love and art been more vividly or intelligently portrayed...More than almost any other novel I've read, Blood captures the relationship between an artist and her work, a relationship that is also susceptible to jealousy and revision and love...What an elegant, suspenseful, and steamy debut.” --novelist Margot Livesey

“These poems strike a thrilling balance between personal disclosure and the rigors of writing.”

"Brings to mind Walt Whitman at his best, for Traxler has written an absorbing, haunting, feminine 'Song of Myself,'" --Victor Contoski, Abraxas

"A fierce and passionate collection!" --Publishers Weekly

Now available on Amazon's Kindle and sold as singles, award-winning short stories from Traxler's collection in process, I'll Always Love You (unless you love me, too) , which looks with an ironic and darkly humorous eye at romantic love, fidelity and infidelity, the politics of sex, the single life and marriage, and the question of when, if ever, it all begins to make sense.

Traxler talks about dividing her writing life between poetry and fiction; about the challenges a writer faces when living in a region so far "outside the glittering current"; and about the literary influences and life experiences that have shaped her perspective as a woman and a writer.