Biography

Patricia "in the office."

Patricia in the La Jolla Light office

Patricia B. Dwyer is a young Southern California writer with an aggressive and witty style that is uncommon of other young women writers.

She graduated in 2011 from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Journalism. Her time at SDSU as made her a versatile writer with strengths in news writing, features, broadcast, blogging and comedy. Her other passions besides writing include art, surfing and Latin culture.

Aside from her education at SDSU, she has also honed her writerly skills at a number of editorial internships, including one at The La Jolla Light.

While there, she pitched and wrote her own articles for both features and news, and also shot and edited her own photos. She got her hands on her social media as well, and launched a new photo album and tagging strategy campaign on their Facebook page.

Patricia is currently employed as the managing editor at Pacific San Diego Magazine, after working her way up from being their intern and then their editorial assistant. At Pacific she writes, researches, assigns stories, keeps track of their pool of writers and photographers, manages their website, arts, and calendar.

Patricia at Macchu Picchu

She spent almost year long on a solo journey through South America in 2010. Fluent in the language, she is interested in incorporating her intrigue with Hispanic culture into her career path.

Patricia wrote for the Features section of The Daily Aztec at San Diego State University for three years, focusing mainly on her weekly humor column “Pati’s Takes.” She discussed everything from outrageous weekends gallivanting around the most dangers parts of Mexico to social commentary on modern courtship practices. Her column won her enough recognition to award her the paper’s 2009 MVP Award.

One of Patricia's mixed-media art pieces in the studio

She was also a staff photographer at The Daily Aztec and still is an avid freelance photographer. Some of her work can be seen on her Flickr.

Aside from journalism, Patricia also studied art at SDSU with no specific focus. She has an extensive knowledge of art history and theory, as well as solid practical experience. She spent the summers of 2008 and 2009 interning for the Lora Schlesinger Gallery and Art Ltd. Magazine in Los Angeles.

Surfing has always been a part of Patricia’s life and she has done some work for surf historian Ben Marcus in attempt to blend her two loves or journalism and surfing.