Is a writer and freelance editor. She likes to write both fiction in several styles and creative nonfiction. She has had three short romances published in the Romance Writers of Australia annual anthology, Little Gems. Other anthologies her work has appeared in have been 2020 Vision: Stories from Melbourne’s Lockdown and South of the Sun: Australian Fairy Tales for the 21st Century.

Other publications include ‘Young Kev’ in Tirra Lirra, ‘The Magician’s Boy’ in Timeless Tales, ‘The Timely Chocolate Shop’ in the Australian Fairy Tale Society ezine, and ‘The Medic’ in the Australian Fairy Tale Society ezine.

Her WIP, YA fantasy Shadow and Flame, was runner up in the children’s literature/YA section of the San Francisco Writers Conference competition. She won the 2006 Australasian Short Story Award for a literary fantasy called ‘You’, and came second in the 2007 Albury-Wodonga competition with ‘Glass Walls’, a literary short story.

Patsy founded the Cartridge Family Writers in 2007, and the group won the Fellowship of Australian Writers 2007 anthology award with an anthology that included three of her stories. In 2014 the Cartridge Family won a grant from the City of Melbourne to publish Melbourne Subjective: an anthology of contemporary Melbourne writing, which includes three of her works: a piece of creative nonfiction, ‘The Policeman’s Suitcase’; a modernist stream-of-consciousness story, ‘The Crying Woman’; and ‘The Searcher’, an historical short story which might best be classified as anti-romance. She also edited this anthology.

She is a member of Writers Victoria, the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) and the Australian Fairy Tales Society.