Baker Artist Portfolios

Patrice Pilgrim is a Baltimore writer, public-school ELA teacher, and freelance writer since 2004. Her fiction is shaped by her Trinidad and Tobago heritage and by the places that form her characters: Baltimore and Maryland, Trinidad, and imagined coastal communities where family memory remains an active force. She has completed two novels. The Jumbie Season, written under her own name, is a 76,736-word young-adult folklore fantasy about a sixteen-year-old who discovers that the old stories she grew up hearing are practical knowledge—and that an inherited promise has come due. As Eloise Marlow, she has completed The Boatbuilder and the Schoolteacher, an approximately 73,700-word sweet romance about inheritance, repair, and a later-in-life second chance. Two further novels are planned in each series. Pilgrim founded Wright Path Curriculum Services, which publishes workbooks for students and teachers. She is also developing a teacher devotional and a work of teacher leadership nonfiction. She holds a BA in creative writing and an M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from Southern New Hampshire University and is an Ed.D. candidate at Grand Canyon University. Her career joins literary fiction with educational publishing, two practices grounded in close attention to language, audience, memory, and the practical uses of story in everyday life.