The Temple of Air - Paperback

by Patricia Ann McNair (Author)

Linking the lives and tales of a place and its people through tragedy and consequence, blind faith and redemption, The Temple of Air, Patricia Ann McNair's award-winning collection of finely tuned short stories, spans three decades to present a portrait of working class Americans.

Author Biography

Patricia Ann McNair has lived 95 percent of her life in the Midwest. She's managed a gas station, served as a medical volunteer in Honduras, sold pots and pans door to door, tended bar and breaded mushrooms, worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and taught aerobics. McNair's work has appeared in various anthologies, magazines, and journals including American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, The Rumpus, Barrelhouse, The Nervous Breakdown, Superstition Review, LitHub, Hypertext, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and others. She's received numerous Illinois Arts Council Awards, Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and a Finalist Award for Prose from the Society of Midland Authors. An Associate Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, McNair facilitates adult writing workshops and is the Artistic Director of Interlochen College of Creative Arts' Writers Retreat. She lives in Tucson with her husband, visual artist Philip Hartigan, and a yard visited by feral cats.