Cradle (Somerville)

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Raised—Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
• Education—University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.F.A., Cornell    University
• Currently—lives in Chicago, Illinois

Patrick Somerville grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later earned his MFA in creative writing from Cornell University. He is the author of the story collection Trouble (Vintage, 2006), and his writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007.

He lives with his wife in Chicago, and is currently the Blattner Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University. This is his first novel. (From the publisher.)