Constance Patrick

Constance Patrick was a high school educator before pursuing management positions in corporate America. She missed teaching but always trained and developed others through her management roles in Reno, Atlanta, Nashville, and Phoenix. She is also certified as a Feng Shui consultant.

After settling in Sedona, AZ in 2013, Constance discovered Sedona’s Red Earth Theatre, a spoken word performance venue for her original poetry and monologues. She presented for shows themed “Kind Art from the Heart”, “Performing Stillness”, “Healing Interconnections: Nature, Spirit, Art”, “Earth Elementals”, “Gratitude Show”, and “Earth Delights”.

She has presented original pieces at the Rumi Tree Art Gallery, Sedona Poetry and Prose Project, and recently on Sedona’s KAZM radio. In recent years, she appeared in Shakespeare’s Lysistrata, and was Stage Manager for Morely, and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Constance’s unique “mountain folk” stories have been presented with Sedona’s Red Earth Theatre venues.

Her poems have been published in Viral Voices (2021), The Stray Branch (2022’s S/S and F/W vols., and S/S 2024), and U.S. 1 Worksheets (Volumes 66, 67, 68, and Fall 2024’s vol. 69). Her Flash Fiction is published in The Stray Branch (Fall/Winter 2022). Her latest poetry and Flash Fiction will appear in the 2025 S/S issue of The Stray Branch. She is currently working on a second book of Haiku which will be published late Fall 2024, in time for holiday gift-giving.

Besides poetry and Flash Fiction, Constance has written several TV screenplays, and monologues. She is a member of the U.S.1 Worksheets Poets’ Cooperative, the Haiku Society of America, Arizona State Poetry Society, Sedona Coyote Poets, and formerly of LA’s Western Edge Writers.