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Pat Pattison
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Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches lyric writing and poetry.
In addition to his four books—Songwriting without Boundaries (Writer’s Digest Books), Writing Better Lyrics (Writer’s Digest Books), The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure (Berklee Press), and The Essential Guide to Rhyming (Berklee Press)—Pattison has developed five online courses for Berklee Online: three on lyric writing, one on poetry, and one on creative writing, all available through online.berklee.edu. More than 1,300,000 students have enrolled in his coursera.org massive open online course Songwriting: Writing the Lyric since its first run in 2013. He has written over 50 articles for various blogs and magazines, including American Songwriter, and has chapters in both The Poetics of American Song Lyrics (University Press of Mississippi) and the Handbook on Creative Writing (Edinburgh University Press).
Pattison continues to present songwriting clinics across the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. His students include multiple Grammy winner Gillian Welch, John Mayer, Tom Hambridge, Karmin, and American Authors, among many others.
- Author of the books Writing Better Lyrics, Managing Lyric Structure,and Rhyming Techniques and Strategies, and feature articles on lyric writing for Home and Studio Recording magazine and Los Angeles songwriters' music paper Performing Songwriter Magazine
- Recipient of more than 40 awards in American Song Festival lyric competitions
- Category winner in Music City Song Festival
- Regional and category winner in Original Song Festival