Growing up in New Jersey , Patricia Otto loved to write her own endings for books and movies.  Her passion for words and the need to be heard seemed to make a writing career all but mandatory.  But practicality prevailed and after high school, she went to nursing school, eventually ending up the operating room of a large trauma hospital in Richmond, Virginia, where she met her husband.  They moved to upstate New York where she put her husband through PA school and where they stayed to raise their son and daughter. Patricia left nursing to be a fulltime mom. In her spare time, she rekindled her love of words and with her family support and love she began to write.

She and her husband still live in upstate and now that both kids are in college, Patricia can engage her muse fulltime.