Patrick Somerville’s first book of stories, “Trouble,” was published in September 2006 (Vintage) and named 2006’s Best Book by a Chicago Author by Time Out Chicago.
His first novel, “The Cradle,” was called “magical” by the New York Times, which added “in a streamlined 200-page novel, he tells an endearing story full of genuinely surprising turns.”
His writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
This spring he will also be serving as the Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University.
He grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell, Auburn State Correctional Facility, and The Graham School in Chicago.
