McCormick, Patricia

Patricia McCormick has worked as a free-lance magazine and newspaper writer, contributing regularly to The New York Times and Parents magazine, where she reviewed children's books and family movies. She is co-author with Steve Cohen of The Parents' Guide to The Best in Family Video: Great Movies for Parents and Kids to Share (St. Martin's, October 1999). Since completing a master's degree in creative writing at the New School she's concentrated almost exclusively on writing fiction. In 2004 she was named a New York Foundation on the Arts fellow. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Cut is her first novel.