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Pat Spears is the author of short fiction published in literary magazines, including the North American Review, Habersham Review, Appalachian Heritage and Common Lives, Lesbian Lives. Her short fiction was a finalist for the Roberts’ Writing Award, 1992.
Pat’s writing is about discovering truth; a truth that lies beyond the words and deeds of her characters, a truth that exposes their human spirit. Her fiction gives clarity to the marginal voices of these men and women whose lives often teeter on the brink of human disaster and exist outside the realm of social acceptability. Her care-worn characters navigate treacherous lives at the short end of the stick where ends don’t meet, failures pile up, and aspirations are often ground under the heel of circumstances beyond their grasp. Still they find ways to beat the odds and triumph in their own way.
She has been a wilderness camp counselor, tractor operator, teacher of American history, girl’s basketball coach, consultant for social studies and economic education, advocate for Title IX, court advocate for victims of domestic violence, business entrepreneur, home accessibility consultant, and unemployed. She continues to work part-time as a home accessibility contractor, and writes in the silent hours before dawn. She dreams of becoming a full-time writer.