Pat Jourdan

Pat Jourdan is from Liverpool, attending to Liverpool College of Art for four years. She has blended painting and writing all her life. One of her first poems, 'Launderette' was included in the Borestone Mountain Best Poems of 1968. It is also included in Roger McGough's 'Strictly Private' and discussed in Ian McEwan's novel 'Saturday.'

Published in hundreds of literary journals, she has won the Molly Keane Short Story Award, the Cootehill Poetry prize, Poetry Pulse, the Veteran's Prize Norwich, second in the Michael McLaverty Short Story Award. Many solo and group exhibitions of paintings.

Divorced, with two children, she lives down a country lane in Suffolk. patjourdan.wordpress.com for random literary reviews.