Pat York teaches elementary school in Buffalo, New York. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies including Realms of Fantasy, Full Spectrum 5, Silver Birch, Blood Moon, and in the upcoming Explorers, a book in the Tales from the Wonder Zone academic SF anthology. She has been on the preliminary Nebula ballot three times.

She was a Nebula finalist in 2000 for the story "You Wandered Off Like A Foolish Child To Break Your Heart And Mine."

She is now writing a novel about entrepeneurs on the moon.