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Victoria Patterson

The author of three novels and two story collections, Victoria Patterson lives with her family in South Pasadena and teaches fiction in Antioch University’s master of fine arts program.

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dorland mountain arts, southern california, one of the five private residence cottages with a sweeping view of the temecula valley

A Near Century of Solitude

The Dorland Mountain Arts residency isn’t Yaddo or MacDowell—and that’s part of its magic.

a painting depicting a group of people entering a cafeteria with a stylized and abstract representation of figures

O.C.! My O.C.!

A gallery show celebrates Peter Carr, forgotten bard of SoCal.

victoria patterson writing at her desk in the basement photographed on january 25, 2024

Basement Buddies

An L.A. writer forms the unlikeliest of friendships in the bowels of the Huntington Library.