Patricia Gordon is a NY writer and artist who developed her appreciation for writing and drawing as a child. As a teenager, she began what would years later become her first novel, a suspense titled Destined. She followed up with that achievement by becoming a two-time recipient of the Dana Literary Society’s Award for Literary Excellence and one-time recipient of the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Honorable Mention Award for her short stories “A Taboo She Considered”, “Vincent’s Violin” and “Beautiful.” Some of her artwork has been featured on the cover of and within Flashquake journal as well as in her own children’s fairy tale The Queen of Broken Hearts, her humor book for adults Funny?: A potentially humorous collection of writing and art and her most recent book The Beauty of Characters.