Patricia Aakhus


Patricia Aakhus teaches courses in creative writing and humanities at the University of Southern Indiana. She is the author of three published novels, The Voyage of Mael Duin’s Curragh, Daughter of the Boyne, and The Sorrows of Tara, based on epic poems she translated from Old Irish, as well as many contemporary short stories, essays and poems. She has recently completed a personal memoir, Rigoletto’s Daughter, and a libretto based on her translation of Chretien de Troyes’ Old French The Knight with the Lion.

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