Patrick O’Keeffe is the author
of “The Hill Road”,
which won the 2005 Story Prize (which has the largest cash prize for any
fiction award in the US - $20,000.00). The book is a collection of 4 novellas
set in a fictional Irish dairy farming village. This setting would appear to be
one that is especially close to Patrick O’Keeffe’s heart, as he himself was
born on an Irish dairy farm in County Limerick in the 60s. He first started
writing in his 20s. Patrick O’Keeffe initially went to the US as an illegal
immigrant in 1986, where he did casual labour, such as bar work and building.
In 1989, Patrick O’Keeffe was fortunate enough to win a Green Card in a
lottery, and so he returned to the US, where he studied English at the
University of Kentucky. In 1998, Patrick O’Keeffe was accepted onto the
University of Michigan MFA writing program, where he studied with Nicholas
DelBanco, Eileen Pollack, and Charles Baxter. In 2000, Patrick O’Keefe was one
of the recipients of the Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship, and won the
Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing. After his graduation in 2000, Patrick
O’Keefe joined the University of Michigan as a popular lecturer in their
creative writing department. Patrick O’Keeffe is currently working on his debut
novel.
Patrick O’Keeffe gets
carried away – an article printed in Beatrice.com where Patrick O’Keeffe
writes about Alice Munro’s “Open Secrets”
Irish
eyes are smiling on Story Prize nominee Patrick O’Keeffe – Kimberly Maul
interviews Patrick O’Keeffe
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