Patricia Rohner
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Patricia Striar Rohner was born in New York, New York, where her mother spent New Year's Eve in the Doctors Hospital. She first lived in an apartment in Forest Hills, New York, and then moved to a home in South Orange, New Jersey, where she spent her childhood. She attended a Hebrew day school, a public junior high school, and Kimberley Academy, an all-girls high school in Montclair, New Jersey. She loved to paint and write and was in the drama club. Rohner spent her summers at Camp Lown in Maine. At fifteen, she went to Europe and Israel for six weeks with relatives and returned to the United States on the Queen Mary.
Rohner graduated from Brandeis University, where she majored in theater arts, and later received a certificate in communications and a master's degree in social work, both from Simmons College in Boston. She worked as a clinical social worker, owned and ran a gourmet kitchen shop in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and sold real estate. Rohner has published seven short stories in literary journals and one novel, called Tzippy the Thief, which took first prize in the Southeast Book Festival in the general fiction category in 2016. She also won first prize in a poetry-reading contest, as well as in an art show, for her sculpture of a female head.
Rohner has four wonderful children, a daughter and three sons, and twelve grandchildren, all of whom are a source of great pleasure to her. She also golfs, oil-paints, and loves the Boston Red Sox. She lives half the year in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and the other half in Boca Raton, Florida.
Website: https://www.amazon.com/Patricia-Striar-Rohner/e/B01DFN0IUA
Winning Entry: Tzippy the Thief
Contest Won: North Street Book Prize 2017, Honorable Mention
