ABOUT Anna.

Anna Montgomery Patton is a fiction writer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Patton studied dance, music, and theater for twenty years, performing with Berkeley Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Symphony, Woodminster Amphitheater, and San Francisco Lyric Opera, among many other companies. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles to continue her dance studies, and to shift her focus to writing, literature, and film. She graduated with a BA in World Arts & Cultures in 2010.

While a student at UCLA, Patton served as a fiction contributor and editor for OutWrite, the university's queer magazine. Established in 1979, it is the first university LGBTQ+ magazine in the country. Upon graduation she moved to New York, where she worked as an intern for Workman Publishing and a theatrical contracts assistant at SAG-AFTRA. Patton left New York and spent a year at the University of Iowa as a non-degree graduate student in creative writing.

Patton graduated with Distinction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she earned an MFA in Creative Writing. She was the graduate assistant for marketing and design for Campus Life Arts & Programs and was a Teaching Assistant for the Creative Writing Department. In the Spring of 2018 she was selected to teach the honors section of Introduction to Creative Writing.

After Hurricane Florence Patton was blown back to California where she continues to write.