Patricia Christie-Brooks

Patricia Christie-Brooks has self-published Grandma Olga’s Journey to America: A Story of How I Came to Be. It pays homage to her ancestors who arrived at America’s doorstep between 1836 and 1903 from Germany, England and Finland.

Earlier this spring, Pat self-published a book of poetry, Love Lost and Found Again: A Cinderella Story in Poetry. She is working on her third book, The Inside Story: A White Girl Growing up in a Black World.

Pat has been a student since 2007 in Susan Omilian’s From Memory to Memoir: Writing Your Life Story class at the Town of Manchester (CT) Senior Center.