• currently teaching/upcoming: The Creative Process (spring 2010)
  
• e-mail Patricia

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Patricia Weaver Francisco is the author of TELLING: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery (HarperCollins, 1999), for which she was awarded a Minnesota Book Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction. Francisco’s published work also includes a novel (Cold Feet, Simon & Schuster, 1988), essays (Village Without Mirrors, Milkweed Editions, 1989),and a play (Lunacy, Dramatic Publishing Company, 1983). She has been awarded two Bush Foundation fellowships and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board in both fiction and the essay.

Francisco has taught fiction, nonfiction, and courses on the creative process in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Hamline University since 1988, and has twice been named Teacher of the Year. She conducts private classes in both creative and professional writing, and she has offered courses through the University of Minnesota, the Loft Literary Center, and the Split Rock Arts Program. Since the publication of TELLING she has been active in speaking to colleges and service providers on the subject of sexual violence and the memoir of crisis