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Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, went to college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell, Northwestern University, Auburn State Correctional Facility, and The Graham School in Chicago. He is the author of two collections of stories: Trouble, named 2006's Best Book by a Chicago Author by Time Out Chicago, and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature, published in 2010. His first novel, The Cradle, was nominated for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Patrick is a MacDowell Fellow, and was recently selected as the winner of the 2009 21st Century Award, given annually by the Chicago Public Library.