EDUCATION
    B.A., Central College, Fayette, Missouri, 1956
    M.A., Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, 1959
    M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts, 1979
PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS
    Signed copies of all of Pat Schneider's books are available from the author. She has published nine books: Another River: New and Selected Poems, published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2005; Writing Alone & With Others, Oxford University Press, (July, 2003); The Writer as an Artist: A New Approach to Writing Alone and With Others, Lowell House, Los Angeles, 1993; Wake Up Laughing: A Spiritual Autobiography, Negative Capability Press, 1997; White River Junction, Long Way Home, Olive Street Transfer and The Patience of Ordinary Things (poems) and In Our Own Voices: Writings of Women in Low-Income Housing (editor), Amherst Writers & Artists Press.

    Her poetry, plays and fiction have appeared in close to a hundred literary journals and magazines (Ms. Magazine; The Sewanee Review; The Sun; Minnesota Review; Kalliope; Exquisite Corpse, etc.) and have been read by Garrison Keillor on Writer's Almanac four times. Her libretti have been recorded by the Louisville Symphony and performed by Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony in Boston's Symphony Hall and in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Fourteen of her plays have been produced, nine published. There are more than 300 recorded productions of her plays in this country and in Europe. Her fiction and non-fiction is represented by Ink Well Management, New York.
WORK WITH WOMEN IN LOW INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS
    For fifteen years Pat has worked intensively with a group of women from low-income housing projects in Chicopee, Massachusetts, creating and leading a writing workshop designed to encourage, teach, and enable the women to resume their interrupted education. A book of their writings, In Our Own Voices, was published by Amherst Writers & Artists Press in 1989. In 1993 AWA Institute was formed to serve low-income families with writing workshops and summer camp opportunities, and to train persons to lead workshops based on the AWA model. These programs have been funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, etc.

    Academy Award winning filmmakers Diane Garey and Larry Hott of Florentine Films/Hott Productions, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, produced a documentary film about Pat's work titled Tell Me Something I Can't Forget, which has been awarded the Golden Eagle (top award) by CINE, an international film festival, and the Golden Apple (top award) by the National Educational Film Festival. It was presented on national educational television's P.O.V. (Point of View) series on August 25, 1993, and is available to the public in both video form and DVD from Pat Schneider.
TEACHING AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL WORK
    In addition to her own workshops and retreats, Pat and other AWA leaders have trained close to 500 persons to lead workshops using the AWA method. Pat is an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She has taught creative writing workshops at the University of Massachusetts, Smith College, Limavadi College (Northern Ireland) and the University of Connecticut. She teaches annually in Ireland, and bi-annually at the Graduate Theological Union in California, where she has also been Playwright in Residence at the Pacific School of Religion. She is founder and Director Emeritus of Amherst Writers & Artists, which sponsors creative writing workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. and in several other countries. Amherst Writers & Artists Press publishes a literary journal, Peregrine, a poetry chapbook series, and occasional books of poetry and short fiction.

PERSONAL

Pat Schneider - 413-253-6353
P.O. Box 1076 Amherst, MA 01004