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Patricia Ferguson
Particia Ferguson has published five novels and a collection of short stories. Much of her writing has been influenced by her work as a staff nurse in London, and as agency nurse and midwife elsewhere; no matter how healthy her characters start out they tend to end up in hospital. Patricia's first novel was published in 1985 and won the David Higham, the Somerset Maugham, and the Betty Trask awards. Several of the stories in Indefinite Nights, which were mainly about nursing, were broadcast on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Further stories have been broadcast in the current Radio 4 afternoon slot, and one was recorded before a live audience as part of the Bath Literature Festival. Several of these stories have been published in anthologies such as The Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, edited by Susan Hill (1991), and Great Escapes (2008). Patricia's two most recent novels - It So Happens (2004) and Peripheral Vision (2007) - were long-listed for the Orange Prize. Peripheral Vision has recently been published in America. Patricia lives in Bristol where she teaches creative writing for the University's Lifelong Learning Department.
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