Patricia Geuder was born August 15, 1931 in Pontiac, Michigan. She moved to Nevada in July of 1957 to accept a teaching position at Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada. She went to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to obtain her master’s degree when there was only one building on the whole campus: Grant Hall. Geuder became part of the Department of English staff of UNLV in 1966. She left to Albuquerque, New Mexico during 1970-1971 to work on her doctorate degree, and moved back to Las Vegas to work as a Humanities professor.