Pat Pattison is a professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
He earned a second Master's degree in Literary Criticism at the Kenyon School of Letters in 1968.
Pattison taught Philosophy and Logic at the University of Notre Dame for two years before leaving that position to tour with his band, featherrain.
[2] Pattison's fourth book, Songwriting without Boundaries: A Lyricist's Guide to Finding Your Voice (2012), is an interactive book of four fourteen-day challenges, and focuses on the creative process through Object Writing and Metaphor.
In 2013 Pattison wrote and began instruction of a Songwriting Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) through Coursera.