Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian (African Diaspora) poet and writer and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University.

[1] She acknowledges and accepts her hybridity of cultures as part of her identity while still calling herself a "a strong Africanist, believing in the values I was taught as an African Child.

"[1] Her poetry's attitude shifts between critical, bemused, revelatory, celebratory, and mournful, as she discusses both her American and Liberian lives.

"[1] Jabbeh Wesley survived the Liberian Civil War, the event that influences and inspires most of her work.

[2] She is married to an educationist, Dr. Mlen Too Wesley, former Vice President of Academic Affairs at the William V. S Tubman University in Maryland county in the Southeast of Liberia.