Patrick Strickland is journalist, editor, and fiction writer from Texas. He is the author of the acclaimed short story collection A History of Heartache (Melville House 2026) and three nonfiction books about migration and the far right, including You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece (Melville House 2025).

His reportage has appeared at the New York Review of Books, The Nation, TIME, LitHub, TomDispatch, and The Guardian, among others. His short fiction has been published at literary magazines including Epiphany, Porter House Review, Pithead Chapel, Salvation South, Doric Literary, Hunger Mountain, and the Los Angeles Review.

He currently works as the managing editor of Inkstick Media. In the past, he has worked as an editor and reporter at the Dallas Observer, The Dallas Morning News, Syria Deeply, and Al Jazeera English.

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