Patricia Ann McNair has had her fiction and creative nonfiction appear in various anthologies, journals and magazines, including American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, The Dunes Review, Other Voices, F Magazine, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction and Air Canada's en Route magazine. She is also published in The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction edited by Dinty Moore, and is a regular contributor to Elks Magazine.
Her honors include a number of Illinois Arts Council Awards and Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction and creative nonfiction, a Writer's Grant and residency at the Vermont Studio Center, a residency at the Glen Arbor Arts Association and Writer in Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. She was also awarded Columbia College Chicago's Excellence in Teaching Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Foundation's US Professor of the Year. McNair was a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in the UK and is a professor in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago.
