Patricia Debney was born in Texas and now lives in Kent. She is the author of a collection of prose poetry, How to Be a Dragonfly (Smith/Doorstop), the overall winner of the 2004 Poetry Business Competition.

Her short stories and poetry have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including New Writing, Tales of the Decongested, and the Forward Anthology of Best Poems, as well as online. Losing You, her first novel, was published in 2007.