THE BULLET COLLECTION, came out in 2003 from Graywolf Press, and received the GLCA New Writers Award, Anahid Literary Award, and Hala Maksoud Award for Outstanding Emerging Writer.   An earlier version received a Hopwood Award at the University of Michigan. 

Graywolf Press
Amazon
Archipelago (novel excerpt, 2003)
Click here for a complete list of publications & awards.
Other writing available online: 
Chapbook at Web Del Sol, a joint project with The Literary Review. 
"The History,"  The Literary Review
(Note:  the bio on that page is outdated.)
Scholarly articles about The Bullet Collection:

Syrine Hout, "Revisiting Lebanon:  Testimony, Trauma, and Transition in Patricia Sarrafian Ward's The Bullet Collection,"  Middle Eastern Literatures 12:3, Dec. 2009.   See here.

David Williams, "This Hyphen Called My Spinal Cord: Arab-American Literature at the Beginning of the 21st Century", World Literature Today (81:1), pages 55-63, Jan-Feb 2007.
http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/essays/Williams-ThisHyphen.html
patricia sarrafian ward

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recent publications
--"East Beirut, 1978" (novel excerpt), Guernica, June 2011 [read it here]
--"Dead Boys" (novel excerpt), Banipal, Summer 2010