Patti Jazanoski’s writing has appeared in Cimarron Review, Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares Blog, The Rumpus, The San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions anthologies, and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50. She was awarded the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Short Fiction Scholarship. A member of the Authors Guild and National Book Critics Circle, Patti earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars and degrees from the University of California Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan. She’s currently at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.
In addition to writing, Patti worked as a software engineer and manager in Silicon Valley for many years. She later co-founded and was the Technical Project Director for the UC Atlas of Global Inequality, which examined the link between globalization and social- and economic-inequality. She has served on the Board of Directors of two environmental nonprofits.
Patti Jazanoski 