Patti Ross

Patti (Spady) Ross graduated from The Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts and The American University. She also holds a M.S. from Keller Graduate School of Management. After a brief career in the Arts and freelance work with the Washington Times and the Rural America newspapers. Patti settled on a career in the corporate dot com arena gaining President's Club recognition with multiple entities. Having traveled abroad and throughout the United States she chose to raise her two daughters in Columbia MD. Thirty years later she is sharing her voice as local spoken word artist - "little pi". Her debut chapbook: St. Paul Street Provocations was published in July 2021 by Yellow Arrow Publishing of Baltimore, Maryland. Patti also hosts EC Poetry and Prose Open Mic in Ellicott City, Maryland, and the online series First Fridays under the organizational umbrella of Maryland Writers Association of which she is a former board member. She also actively supports several Baltimore youth nonprofits as both board member and advisor. A lifelong advocate for the disenfranchised and homeless, Patti writes poems about the racially marginalized as well as society’s traumatization of the human spirit. Her poems are published in the Pen In Hand Journal, PoetryXHunger website, and Oyster River Pages: Composite Dreams Issue as well as other online zines.