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Patricia (Ruiz) Steele was born in Woodland, California to an English/Dutch mother and a Spanish father in 1946. At age 9, she moved to Oregon with her mother and step father. After high school, she lived in California and Ohio where she wrote short stories while her children were napping. After working in the health insurance industry for over 30 years, she retired in 2011, ready to write full time. Her first book, "Shoot the Moon" followed her magazine article, "Living with Cystic Fibrosis," a disease that took her first child in 1978. Since that time, she has published a travel memoir, "A Roundabout Passage to Venice" and a cookbook, "Cooking Drunk." She has found her passion in genealogy research for her Spanish heritage and researched her ancestor's trek walking across the miles of Spain, through the flowers and sugar plantations of Hawaii and into the state of California. "THE GIRL IMMIGRANT" and "SILVAN LEAVES" are book 1 and 2 of her Spanish Pearls Series. Book 3 is in progress. Her travelogue, MIND THE GAP IN ZIP IT SOCKS and her intrigue/romance, TANGLED LIKE MUSIC were both published in 2014.
Patricia moved from Charles City, Virginia to Casa Grande, Arizona with her late husband, J.D., leaving the woods and the Chickahominy River at Steele's Vineyard for the low desert of Arizona in 2012. She enjoys wine, gardening, reading and family --- not necessarily in that order. She has a blog at www.patriciabbsteele.com and is one of the administrators on Hawaiian Spaniards Facebook site as well as her Author Patricia Steele fan page of Facebook. You can find her on Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter www.facebook.com/patriciabbsteele and her website, www.patriciabbsteele.com
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