In addition to publishing in The New York Quarterly, Patricia Farewell's work has appeared in The Partisan Review, The American Poetry Review, The Little Magazine, New Letters, West Branch, Green Mountain Review, The Formalist, Sistersong, Chelsea, and other literary magazines. Anthologies that include her work are Desire, edited by William Packard; Waltzing on Water, edited by Norma Fox Mazer and Marjorie Lewis; The Spirit That Moves Us Reader, edited by Morty Sklar; and Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Words and Image, edited by Steck, Roper, and Harris.
She has won The Frederick Morgan Prize, The Ken McLaren Award, The Arvon Foundation Award, and The Roberts Writing Award, and has been a finalist in several national competitions.