the Republic of Ireland . . . past recipient of several writing fellowships, including a generous cash award from Portland's Literary Arts, Inc., in addition to Walden and Ragdale writing residencies . . . has won first prizes in both fiction and poetry in the prestigious Kay Snow Contest, sponsored by Willamette Writers . . . The late Kurt Vonnegut selected her short fiction "The Hat" as a finalist from among 1,400 entries in a competition sponsored by The Writers' Workshop in Asheville, N.C. . . holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Oregon . . . she and Rich have three sons, Mark, Bismarck, N.D.; Scott, Portland, Ore.; and Tod, Rohnert Park, Calif., and 17 grandchildren.from The Register-Guard: Close to Home: Patricia Mees Armstrong: 1933-2008
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