Patricia Thrushart

I am a writer living in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains just outside of award-winning Cook Forest State Park in the Wilds of Pennsylvania. The beauty of Northern Appalachia and its forests informs my poetry and its history inspires my nonfiction writing. I write to satisfy the need to express emotion or document life; having readers actually interested in sharing those moments is both exhilarating and humbling. If reading any of my poems, or learning about the history I've explored, creates in you a sense of gratitude, awareness or an appreciation of the beauty of our natural world and the richness of the human experience, then I can consider my effort to be worthwhile.