Patricia Lieb

Patricia, currently a feature writer for The Suncoast News, covered the City of Dunedin Florida for eight years. City officials in the quaint town, located between Tarpon Springs and Clearwater Beach on the Gulf of Mexico, presented Patricia with awards on two occassions, one for reliable reporting,1994, the other for government reporting 1991-99. A talented photographer, Pat also illustrates her own feature stories and is often seen at Dunedin's downtown "streetscape" and beaches, camera in hand, snapping photographs to accompany her articles. As time permits, she buries herself in the horror of true crime and writes honest-to-goodness non-fiction stories that are published nationwide in popular detective magazines. Before joining The Suncoast News, Pat worked for several other newspapers, including The Daily Sun Journal in Brooksville, Florida, where she covered crime, courts and city government. She was a feature writer for the Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois for three years prior to moving to Florida in 1987 and was one of the first journalists to join the staff at the Bourbonnais Herald in Bourbonnais, Illinois when it began publication in 1976. In the early 1980s Pat was the co-editor/co-publisher of the literary magazine Pteranodon and the Pteranodon chapbook series, which she produced with Carol Schott Martino. In 1975 she was an editor with the Kankakee Area Writers' Group, in Kankakee, Illinois, to compile American Thoughts, a book of more than 200 pages compiled by the group in celebration of this country's 1976 bicentennial year. Pat has served as a speaker at numerous writer's conferences including the Annual Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference at USF in St. Petersburg; the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; Illinois State University; Nichollas State University; the Chicago Chapter of the American Pen Women; the College of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois; Columbia College, Chicago; Central Illinois' Writer's Conference at Millikin University, and at various poetry society organizations. Pat's fiction, articles, and poetry have appeared in numerous literary and national magazines, as well as publications for teenagers including Scholastic Scope and Star.