patricia a. heisser métoyer is completing an International MFA in creative writing and holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She is an award-winning essayist and recipient of The Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Fellowship and The American Film Institute Fellowship. She is a Ms. Magazine Feminist Scholar. patricia has published writing on multiple platforms. She is currently seeking representation for her first book of cross-genre narrative fiction and nonfiction on African American and African Diaspora Literature and Art. She is a member of the Author’s Guild, the American Psychological Association.