Poetry. "Patrick Michael Finn has written a fierce and frightening, often gorgeously described, swirling, pulsing, sweating runaway car crash of a novella that reminded me of the darker works of Denis Johnson and Hubert Selby. A MARTYR FOR SUZY KOSASOVICH is an unsparing look at the other side of the American dream; the collective rage that passes for friendship in some corners. While Finn's characters are often short-sighted and mean-spirited, his luminous writing and knack for telling detail makes their story relevant and unforgettable."—Michael Jamie-Becerra

Author City: CHANDLER, AZ USA

Patrick Michael Finn was born in Joliet, Illinois, and was raised there and in rural Southern California. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Riverside, and completed his M.F.A at the University of Arizona, where he was a Dean's Teaching Fellow. A winner of the AWP Intro Award and the 2004 Third Coast Fiction Prize, his work has appeared in Quarterly West, Ploughshares, Third Coast, The Richmond Review, Punk Planet, Triquarterly and Houghton Mifflin's Best American Mystery Stories. He lives in Arizona and teaches at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

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