Patrick Thomas Henry is the author of the short story collection PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST (Susquehanna University Press, 2024), which was long-listed for The Story Prize and won the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association Creative Writing Book Award. He is also the author of THE WORK OF THE LIVING: MODERNISM, THE ARTIST-CRITIC, AND THE PUBLIC CRAFT OF CRITICISM. His fiction and essays have appeared in West Branch online, Carolina Quarterly, LandLocked, Lake Effect, Passages North, North Dakota Quarterly, and many others. His work was also selected for inclusion in BEST MICROFICTION 2020. He is the fiction and poetry editor for the journal Modern Language Studies. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of North Dakota. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram @Patrick_T_Henry or online at patrickthomashenry.com.