Patricia Grace King

Patricia Grace King is the author of the story collection, Those Who Vanish, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Her shorter fiction has won the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Miami University Novella Prize, the Florida Review’s Leiby Award, the Kore Press Short Fiction Award, and the Northern Writers Award in the UK. Other stories have been published in Ploughshares, Narrative, The Gettysburg Review, and Nimrod.

A finalist for the 2023 PEN Bellwether Prize, Patricia’s debut novel manuscript was also longlisted for the 2023 McKitterick Prize. Her writing has been supported by a scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Eccles Centre at the British Library in London.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D. in English from Emory University, where she was a Dean’s Teaching Fellow. Born and raised in the American South, she now lives with her husband in northern England, where she is completing a second novel.