Pat Detmer

Pat Detmer is an award-winning humorous writer and speaker who has been published in the Seattle Times, The Eastside Journal, and had a column in The Whidbey Island Marketplace for over five years. She also appeared in Newsweek’s “My Turn” and currently writes a column for the Newcastle News.

She’s won or placed in several fiction contests, most of them having to do with speed (24-hour from topic assignment to finished piece), brevity (100-word and 200-word shorts), or scenarios where the characters are already established and full-blown (three appearances in Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds short story anthologies.)

You can contact Pat at PatDetmer@aol.com.

Pat and her husband are founders of The Quincy Group, a business consulting and brokering company.

You don’t spell ‘doughnuts’ d – o – n – u – t – s! There’s an ‘ugh’ in doughnuts. I say: English Majors of the World unite! Put the ‘ugh’ back in donuts!” — From a stand-up routine.