Dinner with Persephone

Patricia Storace is an American poet and writer born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Mobile, Alabama. Educated at Barnard College/Columbia University and the University of Cambridge, she received the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize in 1993 and a Whiting Award in 1996, and is best known for her award-winning travel memoir Dinner with Persephone, which won the Runciman Award, as well as her poetry collection Heredity.