2000 Norwich Native Daughter Patricia Tennison is a veteran features and news writer, movie editor, and restaurant reviewer for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Magazine, author of James Beard Award-honored cookbooks, and an adjunct professor of writing at National Louis University in Chicago. She is the founder and director of Paris Cafe Writing, which offers an annual travel scholarship through NLU.
Tennison received her bachelor’s degree in English literature and French from Boston University, and her master’s degree in English literature from Boston College.
She was an extra in films starring Johnny Depp and Laurence Fishburne.