Patricia Sweet grew up on an island and like Carly couldn’t wait to drive across the bridge to explore the wide world.

She distinguished herself as a writer in second grade publishing her first poem in the Grand Island Dispatch, then moving on to short stories throughout high school and college. It wasn’t until she began teaching English for the City of Buffalo Schools that she wrote her first novel, inspired by her students who’d asked for a book about them.

These days she writes stories crafted to entertain, inspire, and challenge women of faith. She and her husband live in an old farm house in upstate New York with a very shaggy dog named Cozzi.

She is thrilled to be working with Defiance, a company that shares her belief in freedom, especially freedom of speech, something we can’t take for granted in this age of political correctness and censorship.