Bio

Patricia LeBon Herb is an artist and poet who lives in Middlebury, Vermont. Her poems have been featured in the Poets Sing Happy Poems, The Smalls, Free-spirited Poems, Vision and Verse, Phases, Zig Zag Lit Mag, Borders in Globalization Review, and the Swedish literary magazine Provins.  She was a keynote speaker on Verbal Onslaught, Middlebury College's spoken word event. She has exhibited at the National Association of Women Artists Gallery in New York City; Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College; Champlain Maritime Museum; Fletcher Allen Hospital, Space Gallery, and the Maltex Building in Burlington, VT.  Alexander Twilight Scholars Charlotte Pierce-Baker and Houston Baker have a large collection of her paintings.  She was a judge for the fall 2010 Woodlands Native American art exhibition in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Her artwork has been reproduced on the cover of books published by Oxford University Press and Rowman & Littlefield as well as on posters for the International Film Festival at Middlebury College, Addison County Humane Society, and WomenSafe.  Patricia is of Belgian-Native American descent and an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.  Her Native name is Ziibinggokwe, Turtle Clan.