Lena Patten

The name "Lena Patten," the credit on two stories in <i>Serendipity</i> magazine, is that of a character in Aliya Whiteley's novel <i>Light Reading</i>; the bio in the magazine also describes the character: "Lena is training to be a psychologist. She enjoys drinking gin and eating walnut and coffee cake. Her best friend Pru is a bit of a nutter."