Authors and Illustrators Database

Patricia Hooper

Born: 1941  Saginaw, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: John Phillip Hooper and Edythe Hooper
Spouse: John A. Everhardus
Children: John, Katherine
Address(es):
Permanent:
Gastonia, NC
USA

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Separate Flights Poetry Adult Tampa, FL : University of Tampa Press 2016
Aristotle's garden Poetry Adult Emporia, Kan. : Bluestem Press 2004
A Stormy Ride on Noah's Ark
- Stories in rhyme. 		Fiction Children New York : Putnam's 2001
Where Do You Sleep, Little One?
- This poem asks where little animals make their beds, with answers for each question. 		Poetry Children New York : Holiday House 2001
Image of At the Corner of the Eye At the Corner of the Eye Poetry Adult East Lansing : Michigan State University Press 1997
How the Sky's Housekeeper Wore Her Scarves Picture Book, Poetry Children Boston : Little, Brown 1995
The Flowering Trees Poetry Adult State Street Press 1995
Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems from the Third Coast
- Anthology 		Michigan, Poetry Adult Detroit : Wayne State University Press 1988
A Bundle of Beasts Poetry Children Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1987
Other Lives Poetry Adult New York : Elizabeth Street Press 1984
Other writings:
- Contributor to such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Chicago Review, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, Kenyon Review, New Criterion, etc. 		Poetry
What is the aim or goal of your writing: Perseverance.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
Anita Claire Scharf Award for Separate Flights 2015
Laurence Goldstein Award for Poetry from Michigan Quarterly Review
- For the poem "The View from There" 		2011
Writer's Community Residency Award - National Writer's Voice 1997
Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America for Other Lives 1984
Five Hopwood Awards - University of Michigan
The Bernice W. Ames Award of the Poetry Society of America
Children's Book of the Month Club Alternate
The Lucy E. Elliott Fellowship for Graduate Study (University of Michigan)

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 1964
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 1963

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
English Department Wayne State University Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1964-1966
Freelance Writer and Poet

Other Resources:

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