Patty Dann has published seven books, four fiction and three non-fiction. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
She has written three Modern Love columns for The New York Times.
Her novel, Mermaids was made into a movie, starring Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci.
Her most recent novel is The Wright Sister, about the Wright Brothers’ suffragette sister, Katharine.
Dann is the author of The Butterfly Hours, which was chosen as one of the “Best Books for Writers” by Poets & Writers Magazine. Dann also wrote The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss, which received a Foreword Indie Gold Award for Family & Relationships, and The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption.
Along with The New York Times, Dann’s essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, O Magazine, The Oregon Quarterly, Redbook, More, Forbes Woman, Poets & Writers Magazine, and the anthologies, The Writers’ Handbook, Dirt: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House, and This I Believe: On Motherhood.
New York Magazine named Dann one of the “Great Teachers of NYC.” She earned an MFA in writing from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Oregon. She has taught at the Fairfield County Writers’ Studio, Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute and the West Side YMCA in NYC.
Dann is married to journalist, Michael Hill. Between them they have three sons.
