Patrick Michael Finn is the author of A Martyr for Suzy Kosasovich, winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Competition, and From the Darkness Under Our Feet: Stories, winner of the 2009 Hudson Prize. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, Quarterly West, The Clackamas Literary Review, The Yalobusha Review, and Houghton Mifflin's TheBest American Mystery Stories 2004. His fiction has also received citations in the 2005 Pushcart Prize and TheBest American Short Stories 2008. In 2007 he founded and currently directs the creative writing program at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.