Patti Trimble

Patti Trimble is a poet, essay writer, and visual artist. A native Californian, she developed a love of wilderness early in life, as well as a fascination with art, mythology, and literature. She studied Environmental Science for three years at UC Berkeley, and in the late 1970s, moved to  New York, to work for ten years as exhibiting artist and studio assistant to abstract-expressionist painters: she earned her MFA from the Hunter Graduate Program.

Patti has also worked as a park service naturalist; teacher;  freelance writer for many literature, science, and arts projects; and performance poet, reading her lyric poetry with music at hundreds of venues. She was co- founder of the Tuolumne Poetry Festival in Yosemite and featured reader for ten years. Her poems are published in anthologies and journals, three poetry chapbooks, and a spoken word CD; with grants from the Lannan Foundation, Poets&Writers, a Pushcart nomination, finalist listings from Glimmer Train and P&W California Writer’s Award, and 2009 and 2011 residencies at Djerassi Foundation. Her paintings are in private and corporate collections. In the 1980s, she was represented by Kathryn Markel Gallery and was honored with an award nomination from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1998 she received a painting award from The California Museum of Art.

Patti lives in California and Sicily. She performs poetry in the US and Europe, writes for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and teaches writing for Arcadia University.