Patrick Pritchett was born in South Bend, Indiana and came of age in Southern California. After working in the film industry, he earned his PhD at the University of Colorado- Boulder. He has taught at Harvard University, Amherst College, and Hunan Normal University in China, and currently lectures in English at the University of Connecticut-Hartford. His scholarly work focuses on post- 1945 avant-garde American poetry. Other books of poetry include REFRAIN SERIES (Dos Madres Press, 2020), ORPHIC NOISE (Dos MAdres Press, 2017), SONG X (Talisman House, Publishers, 2014), BURN (Chax Press, 2005), and Gnostic Frequencies.