Patricia Syner

Patricia joined the Margaret Walker Center as Communications Director in July 2024. She received her BA in Creative Writing from Millsaps College, graduating summa cum laude.  During her senior year, she served as co-editor for the campus literary magazine, Stylus, for which she organized events, created advertisements, facilitated staff meetings, and helped with design. While in college she also served as an intern for the Welty Lab, a group centered around exploring Eudora Welty’s life and works through the digital humanities. Her projects included producing a digital map of Welty’s research sources and scanning, transcribing, and creating metadata for a family letter collection at Wolfe Studio in Jackson. While working for the Millsaps newspaper Purple and White, she participated in a collaboration with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting to conduct interviews with Civil Rights activists.

Patricia has been published in three campus magazines, and in Spring 2024 she was awarded second place in the Formal Essay category of the Southern Literary Festival for her essay “On a Dark and Stormy Screen: Bringing Frankenstein to Life in Black and White Films.” She enjoys creating fiction and poetry and loves spending time with friends and family, especially if there’s a movie or a good bowl of ramen involved.