Patrick O'KeeffePatrick O'Keeffe's collection of stories, The Hill Road (Viking Penguin), was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. It has also received The Story Prize for 2005. About him and the work, The Story Prize Committee noted that he was "born and raised on a dairy farm in rural County Limerick, Ireland . . . The Hill Road [unveils] the precarious balance of family intimacies played out in the timeless . . . world of the Irish farm country. O'Keeffe's four linked novellas span time and generations, and each brims with gorgeous, thoughtful prose and enduring characters. Love and secrets, unfulfilled dreams and missed opportunities, fear, greed, and compromised moral decisions all leave their mark here . . . A richly rewarding work" (www.thestoryprize.org). A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Michigan, where he studied with Nicholas DelBanco, Charles Baxter and Eileen Pollack, his work has been published in Doubletake, the Irish Times, and Michigan Quarterly Review. In 2007, he received a Whiting Award for fiction writing. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Colgate University.Videos
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