Patrick Dwyer

Patrick Dwyer writes from the Pacific Northwest. His debut forthcoming novel, Some Different Eden, is a story spanning the decades between Vietnam and Iraq with a frank depiction of one soldier’s struggle with PTSD. It is by turns grim, humorous, thrilling, appalling and in the end redeeming. He’s worked in a cold war embassy, in various research labs, on the Shakespearean stage and in the US Patent Office. “In my work I am surrounded by images and verbal expressions at once numinous (ala Otto and Jung), and at the same time achingly familiar (like the dream of a mother's touch, the recall of which was never experienced in life). I borrow from dreams (mine and others'), from excursions and fancy. I write inside a sense of discovery and surprise. I am fascinated with the depth and breadth of the human experience and I yearn for what I think we all have in common ... I do hope that you enjoy my reads and are even, perhaps, left suspended in wonder.”