©Bonnie Walker, 2008

Patricia Eakins is a fiction writer, the author of The Hungry Girls and Other Stories and The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste (a novel) which won both the NYU Press Prize for Fiction and the Capricorn Fiction Award of the Writer's Voice. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Conjunctions, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction.

Eakins has been awarded two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, one from NYFA, one from CAPS, and the Charles Angoff Award from The Literary Review. She has also been Writer-in-Residence at the Woodstock Guild, Woodstock, New York.

In 1997, “The Hungry Girls” was made into a work of theatre by the performance ensemble Collision Theory, which later commissioned Eakins to write the texts and lyrics for Portrait (with horse and other). The “Portrait” texts appear in the “Artist in Wartime” Issue of Fiction International under the title “What Remained.”

“Tricycle,” a performance piece based on three of Eakins's found text cycles, is currently under development by the performance ensemble Exhibit A.

Eakins is the subject of Reading Patricia Eakins, a book of critical studies of her work edited by Françoise Palleau, who has also translated The Hungry Girls into French. Les Affamées is forthcoming from the University of Grenoble Press.

The curator of the Sunday Best Reading series in Northern Manhattan, Eakins has taught at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), NYU, The New School, and New York Institute of Technology. She has also served as editor-in-chief of the literary web site Frigate: the Transverse Review of Books (www.frigatezine.com).

Her works-in-progress include a novel about the Catskill Mountains that casts a critical eye on the pastoral experience. An excerpt from her travel memoir Hoodoo Dreams: A Meditation on Culture and Landscape appears in a recent issue of The Same.