Patricia Geary is an American author. After writing two borderline fantasy novels, (1982) and Strange Toys (1987), the latter of which won the Philip K. Dick Award, she found it difficult to sell her third novel as she had a reputation primarily as a fantasy author [1], and returned to teaching (she teaches creative writing at the University of Redlands). Her third novel, , was published in 2002 by Gorsky Press, and another, , in 2005.[2]