Michael-Patrick Harrington

Michael-Patrick Harrington is the author of The Innkeeper at the End of the World (2025), A Lab's Ears Are Made of SILK (2025), Everything's Ephemeral: Stories from the Workshops Volume I (2021), Get You, You Ghosts: Stories from the Workshops Volume II (2021), The Distant Sound of Boiling Tea (2015), Sweater Girl and Other Tales of Mondauk County (2014), Saving Magdalene: A Novel (2013), I See No Angels (2004; 2nd ed. 2013), and Deep Autumn (2003; 2nd ed.2013). All of the author's books have been published by Silk Raven Press. They are all are available in paperback and Kindle editions.

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Michael-Patrick was born in Philadelphia and lives in Ambler, PA. His favorite color is green. His favorite book by a living writer is A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. He graduated magna cum laude from Arcadia University. He believes that rock'n'roll is the only true religion and not just because the wine is better.

Michael-Patrick began writing stories as soon as he learned how to construct sentences. In grade school, he wrote a short play before Thanksgiving dinner and forced his sister Kathie to commit to playing all the female parts. Kath bailed at the last second, believing that her brother was about to play yet another trick on her. He wasn't. The play closed early, and the author ended up reading the best parts to his grandmother, Ro-Ro. Kath never went into acting. Michael-Patrick still has the play and believes to this day that if Kath had taken on her assigned roles, she would, at the very least, be acting in Lifetime movies, if not accepting an Oscar and weeping while thanking her big brother.

Such are the travails of a writer.

One of James Joyce's characters said, "I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning."

Ernest Hemingway said, "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Michael-Patrick believes his approach to writing lies between these two viewpoints: it requires exile and cunning so you don't slip in your own blood.