Patrick Thomas Henry is the author of the short story collection Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024), which was long listed for The Story Prize, a finalist for the High Plains International Book Award, a semifinalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review / Texas Tech First Book Prize, and the winner 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Creative Writing Book Award (selected by Jean McGarry). He is also the author of The Work of the Living: Modernism, the Artist-Critic, and the Public Craft of Criticism (Clemson University Press, 2024), which contends that modernist writers like Virginia Woolf bring their sensibility as writers, creators, and storytellers to crafting criticism that resonates with public readerships. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including West Branch online, Carolina Quarterly, Superstition Review, North Dakota Quarterly, LandLocked, Massachusetts Review, The Millions, and Michigan Quarterly Review online, amongst many others. His work has appeared in Best Microfiction 2020.
He was born and raised in central Pennsylvania, a region to which many of his stories return. He is a graduate of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA. He earned an MA in English Literature from Bucknell University, an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Rutgers University-Newark, and a PhD in English from the George Washington University. He is the creative writing editor for the journal Modern Language Studies. Currently, he is an associate professor and director of creative writing in the English Department at the University of North Dakota, where he also serves as the director of the annual UND Writers Conference. He and his wife live with their cat in Grand Forks, ND.
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