Patricia G. Buddenhagen began her career in book publishing in New York and worked as an editor at the Book-of-the-Month Club. She has since worked as a marketing specialist, a journalist, and for ten years served on the board of the Boston Branch of the English-Speaking Union (an organization devoted to improving global communication through the English language). She earned an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College. Earlier stories have been published in Emrys Journal and Scrivener Creative Review.