Front Porch Review
A literary magazine for the young at heart and mind

Patricia Bass is a retired graphic designer whose avocation is writing. Her poems and prose have appeared in Wright College's The Wright Side and in Osher Lifelong Learning Institute's The Journal. She grew up in a small Utah town and studied art in Salt Lake City while working at a drugstore soda fountain. To pay for further art courses, she worked for three years in a cafeteria at a civilian-military post in the Utah desert. In 1955 she moved to Chicago where she combined marriage and family with art studies and a twenty-five-year design career. After retiring she took a few writing courses, liked what she was doing and continued for a degree in English with a minor in writing. Pat lives in Chicago and is currently readying her first book of poems for publication.