Patrick Strickland is a 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 in the New York Review of Books, The Nation, TIME, LitHub, The New Republic, and The Guardian, among others.

His short fiction has been published by literary magazines including Epiphany, Porter House Review, Pithead Chapel, Salvation South, Doric Literary, Hunger Mountain, and the Los Angeles Review. He was a prizewinner in the 2021 Larry Brown Short Story Award.

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. He was a 2024 de Groot Foundation Writer of Note and a 2023 Lando Award finalist.

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