Patry Francis has published stories and poems in The Ontario Review, Tampa Review, Antioch Review, Colorado Review, The American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. She is a three time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and was the recipient of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council twice. Her story, “The Only Word I Know in Spanish” will be included in THE KILLER YEAR anthology to be published by St. Martin’s in early 2008. Francis also writes a weekly column, "Diary of a First Novelist" which is available on Gather.com every Thursday.