Patricia Marks, retired English professor and Episcopal Deacon, is following her childhood dream of writing. She has published over seventy academic articles and reviews, as well as six books. Much of her research has focused on nineteenth-century satire and caricature. She continues to research and publish and has expanded her scope to include meditations, Bible stories, and poetry.A graduate of Douglass College, she received her Ph.D. from Michigan State and taught at Valdosta State University for thirty years. During her career she received many fellowships, grants, and honors, among them the Regents’ Distinguished Professor for Teaching and Learning, the Governor’s Award in the Humanities, and National Endowment and Mellon Foundation fellowships. She has served as a reader for a number of publications, including the Victorian Periodicals Review, American Periodicals, and Studies in American Culture. She is active in church outreach and community organizations, and enjoys giving book reviews and teaching classes for Learning in Retirement. Along with her astrophysicist husband she takes delight in adventurous travel.Read more about this authorRead less about this author