Pat Myers

Washington, D.C.

Editor and judge of The Style Invitational since December 2003 Education: University of Maryland at College Park, BA in economics, 1980

 Pat Myers is editor and judge of The Style Invitational, The Washington Post's page for clever, edgy humor and wordplay. Myers has posted and judged more than 700 contests, from elaborate song parodies to Your Mama jokes, since she began with the page in December 2003. She writes the weekly Style Conversational column and runs the lively Style Invitational Devotees page on Facebook.

Myers was a copy editor on the Style desk from 1982 to 2008, serving 12 years as desk chief. Before that, she was a copy editor for Baltimore magazine and a firm that edited government reports. She learned the craft of copy editing at the Diamondback, the daily paper of the University of Maryland.

Latest from Pat Myers

Style Conversational Week 1350: We’re giving you a new-word order

The Empress of The Style Invitational talks about this week's column and results.

Sep 19, 2019

Style Invitational Week 1350: Find inspo in new dictionary words

Write a poem with the latest from Merriam-Webster. Plus winning neologisms.

Sep 19, 2019

Style Conversational Week 1349: Not for every taste

The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week's food fictoid winners and the new Congressional Record contest.

Sep 12, 2019

Style Invitational Week 1349: Revise and extend these remarks

Playing with the Congressional Record; plus winning fake trivia about food.

Sep 12, 2019

Style Conversational Week 1348: What I did on my summer vacation

Sep 5, 2019

Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference

How is John Bolton’s mustache like/unlike Einstein’s tongue? Plus winning limericks.

Sep 5, 2019

Style Invitational Week 1347: Reologisms — we search for meaner meaning

Describe terms like ‘humortician’ and ‘Joan of Arkansas’; plus more ‘woe’ parodies

Aug 29, 2019

Style Conversational Week 1346: Do I have to spell it out for you? OK, NP.

Stumped by those combined abbreviations in this week's Style Invitational results? The Empress will make a short story longer.

Aug 22, 2019

Style Invitational Week 1346: AZ if — balancing acts

A brand-new neologism contest. Plus the winning combo-abbrevs.

Aug 22, 2019

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