William B. Patrick

William B. Patrick is an award-winning writer whose works have been published or produced in a number of genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, screenwriting, poetry, and drama. He has written The Call of Nursing: Voices from the Front Lines of Healthcare; Saving Troy: A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City; We Didn’t Come Here for This: A Memoir in Poetry; These Upraised Hands, a book of narrative poems and dramatic monologues; Rescue, a radio play commissioned by the BBC; Rachel’s Dinner, an ABC-TV teleplay starring Olympia Dukakis and Peter Gerety; and Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family, which won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for the best first novel, among many other works. Mr. Patrick has taught in Fairfield University’s MFA Writing Program for the last twelve years, and a variety of his book excerpts, magazine articles, and dramatic writing can be found at williampatrickwriter.com. He lives in Schenectady, New York with his wife, Carmel, and his golden doodles, Vincent and Rockwell.