Dave Patterson
photo credit: Matthew Delamater
WEBSITE davepattersonauthor.com
BIO
Dave Patterson is a fiction writer, journalist, musician, and high school English teacher. He holds an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. A winner of the Bread Loaf Freeman Fiction Award and a Maine Literary Award for Short Fiction, his stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in Salon, Slice Magazine, Hot Metal Bridge, Maine Magazine, The Masters Review, among others. He is the author of the acclaimed novel, Soon the Light Will be Perfect, which the New York Public Library declared, “Devastating, beautiful, worth it.” He lives in Cape Elizabeth with his wife and two children.
