Discipline: Literature

Patsy Sims

Discipline: Literature
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986

Patsy Sims has published three books, including The Klan, and is working on a memoir tentatively titled Doing Time in Texas: The Story of a Girl, a Prison, and a Town Called Sugar Land. She directed Goucher College's creative nonfiction program for thirteen years.

Studios

Mansfield

Patsy Sims worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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