Pat Clay

Patricia Giagiacumo Clay (Pat) grew up in Schenectady, New York. Her parents, Italian immigrants, raised a family of seven daughters of which she was last.

After a B.S. in Speech from SUNY at Geneseo, she taught English on Long Island. Later she moved to Dayton, Ohio, received an M.A. from the University of Cincinnati and spent the next twenty-five years as Speech Pathologist in the public school system, wrote research and design units for the state, and pushed all those story ideas to the back of her brain.

Then -- retirement and paradise! She moved to Merritt Island with her husband of thirty-seven years. Her son and daughter are nearby - they found paradise earlier in life than she. A life-long baseball fan, and not to be outdone by Heather Harper, she's been kissed by Johnny Bench and hugged by Pete Rose and would like to give Derek Jeter a shot.She's been on stage with clown Emmett Kelly Jr. and delivered a birthday cake to jazz-man Woody Herman.

Pat has completed five contemporary novels (with a few false starts thrown in), some with elements of suspense, some without. Currently she is a free-lance correspondent for Communities Section of Florida Today.

At STAR she's worked on hospitality, been contest coordinator and secretary. Currently she has dusted off her high school cheerleading pom-poms to serve as STAR rewarder-for-good-member-deeds.