Pat McCutcheon earned her Masters in English at California State University at Los Angeles, but only her fifth grade teacher ever encouraged her to write until she took a life-changing Poetry Workshop at College of the Redwoods years later. Fretting over the first assignment, she finally felt the subtle pressure of what might be a poem pushing her pen. She was hooked. With her Masters, she taught at CR, sometimes even poetry. Now she has many published poems, a first chapbook called Recovering Perfectionist, and her second, Slipped Past Words, was a winner in a Finishing  Line Press contest.

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