Originally from Dallas, Texas, Patrick Strickland is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Greece. He’s lived and reported across Europe, the Middle East, and North America. His reportage has appeared at the New York Review of Books, TIME, The Guardian, and elsewhere. His short fiction has been published by Epiphany, Porter House Review, and Pithead Chapel, among others. His fiction has won him a de Groot Foundation Writer of Note award, a third-place finish in the Larry Brown Short Story award, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of Net Anthology.

Patrick currently serves 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, Al Jazeera English, and Syria Deeply.

Patrick is the author of three nonfiction books about borders and the far right, most recently including You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave: Refugees, Fascism, and Bloodshed in Greece (Melville House, April 2025), and a forthcoming short story collection, A History of Heartache (Melville House, February 2026).