Welcome to Patti Marxsen's Website
Thanks for stopping by my website, where I try my best to keep information about my recent publications up-to-date. Here, you'll find information about my books listed below and occasional notes about new and forthcoming publications. As ever, I welcome your interest, your feedback, and your book orders! If you are interested in a reading or other form of commentary, please contact me personally via email at thewritewoman@gmail.com

WHAT'S NEW? Check out my in-depth review of Marie Vieux-Chauvet's "Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy" in the March/April issue of The Women's Review of Books. I also have a posting on the WRB Blog.

FORTHCOMING: "The Art of Writing the Travel Essay" with step-by-steps tips will appear in the August issue of The Writer Magazine. See you there!

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS: I plan to return to my Haiti novel, The Cry of the Peacock, this spring and am also looking for a publisher for my translation of "The Song of Our Rhone," a 70-page prose poem by Swiss writer, C. F. Ramuz.

PRIZE WINNER: My nonfiction chapbook entitled Beyond the Village: Essays Out of Switzerland won the All Nations Press competition in 2009 and should be available sometime this summer.

Tales from the Heart of Haiti includes nine short stories, each with its own moral dilemma. This collection, minus the final story that I added later, was a finalist in the 2008 Paris Prize for Fiction. The book, and a Teacher's Guide created to go with it, can be ordered from America's premier Haitian-American publishing house, Educa Vision Inc., by contacting www.educavision.com	My translation and editing of this biography/memoir of Albert Schweitzer's work in Africa invites English-speaking readers to discover the living philosophy of one of the 20th century's great humanitarians. Please order you copy of Albert Schweitzer's Lambarene: A Legacy of Humanity for Our World today from the US distributor, www.alondrapress.com
Island Journeys: Exploring the Legacy of France includes seven essays on islands with French connections. In each case, I focus on the culture, history, and unique experience of "floating worlds" that are faraway and yet within reach, at least for the armchair traveler. This book was a finalist in the Writers' League of Texas Nonfiction Book Awards (2009). Please order from www.alondrapress.com	Until the next book cover appears, I thought a bunch of tropical flowers would be appropriate... after all, I might be away from my desk taking time to "smell the flowers."