Patricia Ann McNair

PATRICIA ANN MCNAIR is the author of the short story collection The Temple of Air, which was named Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year and received Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Readers Award and a Society of Midland Authors Finalist Award. McNair’s fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Prime Number, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and other publications. She is Director of Undergraduate in Fiction Writing Programs in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago.