Patricia McMillen

Retired from the active practice of law in 1992 (a 40th birthday present to myself) to concentrate on music, writing, travel and community activism. Thirty+ years later: survived COVID21, hunkered down in city of Chicago; dramaturged Two Remain (a Heggie/Scheer opera produced by Chicago Fringe Opera in March 2022); still writing/publishing poetry*; occasionally keeping the Jewish Sabbath; getting sick, getting well, hanging round the ink well. Also continue to pursue various community/environmentalist** activities as the spirit dictates.

*My first full length collection, Running Wild (Georgetown KY: Finishing Line Press, 2024) was published in March 2024 and is available for purchase at Bookshop.org, where I also have started the Booklist "Kickass poetry by women (and some men)(along with some prose)."

**Happiest business memory: negotiating the sale of 1000 acres of family farmland near Franklin Grove IL to The Nature Conservancy, and watching TNC turn it back into tallgrass prairie/darksky--complete with bison herd.

Oy, the day I found my locker! (I only remember that happening once. Wonder what happened to the stuff I put in there that day?) I vaguely remember the Rotunda, and math class - Dr. Moore - whose lectures on algorithms and exponents come back to me at odd moments. I enjoyed visiting New Trier as an aunt (three grads) much more than actually going there as a student. Transferred to private girls' boarding school after freshman year and on to college after junior year.

Skokie

NTE, Dana Hall School (Wellesley, MA)

Brown University, BA 1973
University of Chicago, JD 1983
University of Illinois, MA (Program for Writers, 2005)