Juliet Patterson teaches various courses in creative writing and literature. She is also teaches courses in Enviromental Conversation, Environmental Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her scholarly and creative interests include environmental studies, queer theory and literature, gender studies, ecopoetics, auto theory, and human geography.

She i\ is the author of Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide (Milkweed Editions, September 2022), finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Awards and named one of the best memoirs of 2022 by Library Journal. She has also published two full-length poetry collections, Threnody, (Nightboat Books 2016), a finalist for the 2017 Audre Lorde Poetry Award, and The Truant Lover, (Nightboat Books, 2006), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. A recipient of the Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize in non-fiction, and a Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, she has also been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minneapolis-based Creative Community Leadership Institute (formerly the Institute for Community and Creative Development). In addition to her academic experience, Juliet has worked in community partnerships with the Walker Art Cetner, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, Pathways Health Center and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.She lives in Minneapolis near the west bank of the Mississippi. For more information, visit: www.julietpatterson.com