Caroline Patterson published the collection, Ballet at the Moose Lodge, with Drumlummon Press in 2017. In 2006, she published the
anthology Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart,
which won a Willa Award. Her work has appeared in
anthologies including Montana Noir (Akashic Books, 2017) and
Bright Bones: Innovative Montana Writing (Open Country Press,
2017. She has received awards including the Wallace Stegner
Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, Joseph Henry Jackson Prize
from the San Francisco Foundation, a Vogelstein Foundation Award, as well as residencies from the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the executive director of the Missoula Writing Collaborative.