Patricia Lieb

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Patricia Shipp Lieb is a writer residing in Florida, born in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1942. She moved to Illinois in 1960 where she attended classes at the Kankakee Community College and Governor's State University before moving to Florida.

Lieb worked for the Daily Journal in Kankakee, Illinois, as a feature writer before co-founding Lieb-Schott Publications with Carol Schott (Martino) through which they edited and published the former literary magazine Pteranodon. The magazine featured many well-known and new poets including William Stafford, Richard Eberhart, Jared Carter, Glenn Swetman, David Chorlton and writers including Patrick Smith and Borden Deal. Lieb-Schott Publications published chapbooks of poetry by other poets as well as fearturing some of their own works.

After moving to Florida Lieb joined the news crew at the Daily Sun-Journal in Brooksville where she worked for four years as the newspaper's crime-beat reporter. She also wrote for true crime magazines for the next 10 years and later wrote the true crime book Murders in the Swampland.

Lieb last worked as a news and feature writer for the Suncoast News in New Port Richey where she won several awards from the Florida State Press Association, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, awards from the City of Dunedin, and various awards for features and photography.

Lieb has two children: her son Douglas Lieb, Jr., who lives in Middleboro, Massachusetts; and daughter Rachelle Strenge in New Port Richey, Florida.