Patrick Thomas Henry is the author of the short story collection Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024), which won the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Creative Writing Book Award. 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). His work has appeared in West Branch Wired, Michigan Quarterly Review online, Carolina Quarterly, Lake Effect, Passages North, and many other journals. Currently, he is the fiction and poetry editor for the journal Modern Language Studies. He is currently an assistant professor and coordinator of creative writing at the University of North Dakota, where he also serves as the director of the UND Writers Conference. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @Patrick_T_Henry and online at patrickthomashenry.com.