Patricia Marcantonio
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| Born | Patricia Santos
Pueblo, Colorado, U.S.
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| Education | B.S., Mass Communications, Colorado State University Pueblo |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, short story writer |
| Website | patriciamarcantonio |
Patricia Marcantonio is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of the Felicity Carrol mystery series and an award-winning collection of short stories, Red Ridin' in the Hood and Other Cuentos.
She was born in Pueblo, Colorado,[1] the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants.[2] She earned a B.S. degree in mass communications from Colorado State University Pueblo and formerly worked as a crime and trial reporter.[3] She now lives in Idaho.[4]
Her Victorian mystery novel, Felicity Carrol and the Perilous Pursuit, is the first of a series and has received favorable reviews from the Historical Novel Society,[5] Publishers Weekly,[6] Kirkus Reviews,[7] and the New York Journal of Books.[8]
Her courtroom drama, Verdict in the Desert, was included in Amazon's Latino Best Seller List[9] and the 2016 Latina Book Club Books of the Year,[10] and was favorably reviewed by Kirkus Reviews.[11] Also in 2016, she was featured as Author of the Month on Houston Public Media.[3]
Her short story collection, Red Ridin' in the Hood and Other Cuentos, received the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award,[12]anAméricas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature (Commended Title),[13] and recommendations from Publishers Weekly,[14] the National Council of Teachers of English,[15] and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.[16] It was included in "50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know" by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education[17] and in "Exceptional Anthologies and Short Story Collections" by the All the Wonders podcast.[18]
She has also won several screenplay and short story contests.[4][9] She also received Alexa Rose Foundation grants to direct her original play "Tears for Llorona" and to workshop her play, "Starring Jane Eyre."
https://www.alexarosefoundation.org/copy-of-2021
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