Patricia Schultheis has had several essays and nearly two dozen short stories published in national and international literary journals. Her pictorial local history Baltimore’s Lexington Market was published by Arcadia Publishing of South Carolina in 2007, and.her collection of short stories about a fictional street in Baltimore named St. Bart’s Way was a finalist for the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award and Snake Nation Press awards. In 2010 her short story “Downward Drifting†was included in an anthology of Baltimore writers, and she was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. . She has served on the editorial boards of The Baltimore Review and Narrative and is a member of The Author’s Guild and a voting member of The National Book Critics Circle. Patricia holds two graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and an undergraduate degree from Albertus Magnus College. She currently teaches at McDaniel College.