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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, born in Tugbakeh (Maryland County, Liberia) and grew up in Monrovia,Liberia is an African-American, a mother, a wife, a survivor of the Liberian war, a poet, and a professor of Creative Writing at Penn State, Altoona.

Contents 1. Biography 2. Works 3. Interviews 4. Notes 5. External links 6. Contact information

 Biography  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Wesley attended the College of West Africa, a high school sponsored by the United Methodist Church. Liberia's civil unrest leading into the 1980 military coup of 1980 marked her college years. Before the Liberian Civil War, Wesley and her family went on a World Bank Grant to Indiana University for graduate study. There she got a Master of Science in English Education after which they returned to Liberia. In 1990, rebels swarmed Monrovia, and the family was forced to flee their home in Congo Town, a suburb of Monrovia. They lived under the torture that characterized Charles Taylor's warfare. She has taught English and literature at the University of Liberia and at a few American colleges and universities. She completed a PhD in English Creative Writing at Western Michigan University in June 2002.

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Wesley is the author of four volumes of poetry: Before The Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa, 1998; Becoming Ebony, 2002; Becoming Ebony, 2003; and Where the Road Turns, 2007. She is currently working on a memoir.

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http://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/spip.php?article6187

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http://www.nathanielturner.com/patriciajabbehwesleytable.htm http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/242222 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFLLrR06NSs http://www.festivaldepoesiademedellin.org/pub.php/en/Revista/ultimas_ediciones/77_78/wesley.htm http://www.speakersaccess.com/patricia-jabbeh-wesley http://www.nathanielturner.com/patriciajabbehwesleytable.htm http://aromaproductions.blogspot.com/2010/11/comments-on-patricia-jabbeh-wesleys.html http://www.liberiaseabreeze.com/doebatributepjw.htm http://arc.psu.edu/pablackwriters/the-writers/patricia-jabbeh-wesley http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/patricia-jabbeh-wesley

Contact information _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English Penn State University Altoona 3000 Ivyside Drive 125 Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts Altoona, PA 16601-3760

Office:(814)949-5501 Fax:(814)949-5368 Professional Website: www.pjabbeh.com or: www.Patriciajabbehwesley.net