J.M. Patrick grew up on a dead-end road in Shelton, Connecticut. As a child, she sat in her front yard, back against a white picket fence, and read everything she could get her hands on. Growing up she dreamt of becoming a famous writer. Once she realized there was no such thing, she focused instead on becoming a successful writer. Now she spends most of her free time analyzing the word “successful”.
Her first love has always been books, followed closely by children. Currently, she volunteers for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut. She thinks this should hold her over until she has her own. This love of children has found its way into her fiction.
She now lives in an old Victorian house in Connecticut with a photographer who collects bones and an engineer that looks really good in a leisure suit. Though she is minutes from the suburban house she grew up in, she likes to think she has come much farther than ten miles.
