Patricia Hoerth Batchelder is co-founder, retreat leader, and spiritual director at Turtle Rock Farm-A Retreat Center for Sustainability, Spirituality and Healing. She is adjunct instructor for spirituality courses at Phillips Theological Seminary. Batchelder is former feature writer for The Washington Star. She taught journalism at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma, and at Northern Oklahoma College.
Batchelder co-authored The Life and Times of Henry Bellmon (1992), her father's memoir, which was awarded the 1993 best book of non-fiction by the Oklahoma Center for the Book.