Patrick Dixon is a writer/photographer retired from careers as an educator and commercial fisherman. A member of the board of directors of the Olympia Poetry Network, he has been published in several literary journals, including Cirque, Claudius Speaks, Linden Avenue, Mom Egg Review, Oberon, Panoplyzine, The Raven Chronicles, Soul-Lit, The Tishman Review, and World Enough Writers among others. His work appeared in the anthologies Examined Life, The Madrona Project #7, FISH 2015, and WA 129. He was included in the Washington State Book Award–winning anthologies Take a Stand: Art Against Hate (Raven Chronicles, 2020) and I Sing the Salmon Home (Empty Bowl, 2024).

Mr. Dixon is a past poetry editor of National Fisherman magazine’s quarterly, North Pacific Focus. A member of the FisherPoets Gathering organizing committee, he received an Artist Trust Grant to edit Anchored in Deep Water: The FisherPoets Anthology (2014). His chapbook Arc of Visibility won the 2015 Alabama State Poetry Morris Memorial Award. His poem Western Washington November was selected as a winner of the 2023 “Poems of Place” competition by the Cirque. His poem Twilight on the Boat and photograph “Dancing Sky” were selected by the Alaska Department of Parks and Recreation for an interpretive sign at Bird Point Park, a beluga whale viewing spot south of Anchorage along the Seward Highway.

Mr. Dixon spent his childhood in Logansport, Indiana, but grew up when he moved to Kenai, Alaska in 1975, where he lived and fished for over 20 years. Mending Holes is his first full-length collection of poetry.

More information is available at http://www.patrickdixon.net/