Jo Patti was born in the USA, but moved 13 times before she was 11. She has lived and worked on 6 continents and published work in fiction, technical writing, reporting and non-fiction. Jo was selected as a "Poet on Wheels" by the Australian New South Wales Arts Council in 1998 and awarded the honor of being an "Artist for Life" by the Texas Commission on the Arts for her work in the fields of Story telling, Choreography and Poetry in 1999. Jo is an educator, a third class radio engineer, a flautist, a student of martial arts, an avid hiker and a mother and TCM health practitioner. She's received a number of awards over the years, including being the first female to win the Circumnavigators Club Fellowship, Outstanding Professor for YSMU (Armenia 2010) and chosen as a Specialist for the US Department of State Near East bureau (2018). Jo's work is published in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Pakistan, Russia and Iraq (in English).  In 2019 Jo was awarded a "Certificate of Honor" for her Achievement and Attitude in Martial Arts from the Yun Tai International Martial Arts Training Center in Henan, China.