Meet Patsy Stanley

Patsy is a visionary storyteller and illustrator whose work breathes life into the whimsical. Patsy has been creating for as long as she can remember. Before she wrote her first word, she was making art. Before she published her first book, she was raising children, watching toy cars roll across living room floors, and sitting quietly beside elders on the Rosebud Reservation.Today, she is the author of over forty books. Not forty variations of the same story. Forty entirely different worlds.She writes for children who love trucks and magical creatures. She writes for young readers who need to laugh at something ridiculous. She writes for spiritual seekers who want to understand energy, chakras, and the atomic structure of the universe. She writes for silver-haired hearts learning to love again. She writes for anyone who has ever felt like a misfit and wondered if they belonged.One thread runs through all of it: soul and spark.

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Patsy is a proud member of:

• The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)

• The American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP)

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For years, she worked in the field of psychodrama, writing skits for enactment –a practice that honed her skills for short, meaningful, and emotionally resonant storytelling.