Veronica Patterson’s poetry collections include How to Make a Terrarium (CSU Poetry Center, 1987), Swan, What Shores? (NYU Press Poetry Prize, 2000), Thresh & Hold (Gell Poetry Prize, 2009), & it had rained (CW Books, 2013), Sudden White Fan (Cherry Grove, 2018). Two chapbooks: This Is the Strange Part (2002) and Maneuvers: Battle of the Little Bighorn Poems (2013). Her poems “Around the Block of the World” and “The Samovar” co-won the 2006 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. Honors include Pushcart nominations, Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily publications, and two individual Colorado Council on the Arts grants. Patterson graduated from Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Michigan, University of Northern Colorado, and Warren Wilson (MFA Poetry). Her essay in the Georgia Review (Spring 1993), “Comfort Me with Apples,” was selected as a Notable Essay of the Year. She was Loveland, Colorado’s first Poet Laureate, serving from 2019 through 2022.
