Patrick Lawrence O'Keeffe

Patrick Lawrence O’Keeffe was raised on a rocky dairy farm near Ulster, Pennsylvania, one of nine children. For five years he studied for the priesthood at Notre Dame, followed by a forty-year stretch in Manufacturing. He resides in Port Clinton, Ohio, with his wife Karen. He is a published historian, novelist, and poet, activities he now labors at most of the time, unless he’s fixin’ things out back in the workshop.