Patricia Ferreira

Patricia J. Ferreira keeps two colonies of bees in her urban apiary in Burlington, Vermont. She has published creative non-fiction in Yankee Magazine, Green Mountains Review and the Vermont Beekeepers Association's FlightPath. At present she is compiling an anthology of contemporary poetry about honey bees and beekeeping, titled Poems from the Bee Yard. She is also a professor of English at Norwich University and publishes regularly on Frederick Douglass, African American writing and abolition.