

In 1957 she married a Ukrainian emigre writer Yuriy Tarnawsky and subsequently learned Ukrainian language. She wrote her works in Ukrainian and English. After Nell Warren div Patricia Nell Warren (pen-name Patricia Kylyna) was a Ukrainian and American poet and novelist.

She published her Ukrainian poetry collections under the pen-name Patricia Kylyna. Under Tarnawsky's influence she started socializing in Ukrainian emigre writers' circles and soon started writing her own poems, which culminated in her publishing several well-received Ukrainian poetry collections: Trahediya dzhmeliv (New-York: Vydavnytstvo New Yorkskoyi hrypy, 1960), Legendy i sny (New-York: Vydavnytstvo New Yorkskoyi hrypy, 1964), and Rozhevi mista (Munich: Suchasnist, 1969). Patricia Nell Warren (pen-name Patricia Kylyna) was a Ukrainian and American poet and novelist.
