Pat Conway grew up speaking Spanish and English on a cotton farm south of El Paso, Texas. She retired in 1996 from thirty-two years of teaching high school English and Creative Writing. Pat is a Fellow of the West Texas Writing Project. She has had poems and stories published in "Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Border"s; "Treasured Poems of America, Fall 1997"; and in Mesilla Valley Writers's publication "Crossroads." Her chapbook of poetry "Doorways", was published in 2007. She won second place in the 2010 national poetry writing contest sponsored by Eber & Wein Publishing.Here writings reflect the lives of people in the borderland between the United States and Mexico as seen through the… eyes of the anglo experience in its interactions with the Mexican-American community.Pat lives in Good Samaritan retirement community in Las Cruces, NM where she facilitated a writing group for several years. She has one daughter, Katherine, and enjoys facilitating classes and writing.