Patrick Crerand is originally from Ohio. His stories have appeared in monkeybicycle, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, New Orleans Review, Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review among others and have received special mention in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Fantasy anthologies. Currently, he directs the low residency MFA Program at DeSales University in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. He lives in Allentown with his wife and three kids.