Pat Valdata is fiction writer and poet. Her poetry book about women aviation pioneers, Where No Man Can Touch, won the 2015 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and has just been released in a revised edition by Wind Canyon Books. Her most recent novel, Eve’s Daughters, was published by Moonshine Cove in November 2020. Her other novels are Crosswind and The Other Sister, which won a gold medal from the Árpád Academy of the Hungarian Association. Her other poetry titles are Inherent Vice and Looking for Bivalve. Pat has an MFA in fiction writing from Goddard College and retired in 2020 from teaching creative writing and English for the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).