A contributing journalist, a blogger, and, yes --you have to say it out loud sometimes— a poet. Her first collection of poems “Poste Restante†came out in 2011. English is a language of choice for Pater because she loves the tongue that neither conjugates nor declinates as opposed to her native Polish. It also pleases her to see the expression on faces that hear her read. And, most readily available faces are English speaking. Pater lives in Lexington, Kentucky.