Patrick Swenson edits the magazine Talebones and runs Fairwood Press. Book titles includes first novels by James Van Pelt and Jay Lake, a reprint of Alexei Panshin's Nebula-award winning novel Rite of Passage, and collections by Louise Marley, Paul Melko and Ken Rand. Available this summer is James Glass's novel The Viper of Portello, and coming up this fall will be the anthology Exquisite Corpuscle, edited by Frank Wu and Jay Lake, the first collection of Ken Scholes, Long Walks, Last Flights & Other Strange Journeys, and a collection by Mark Rich, Across the Sky. For more information see: www.fairwoodpress.com and www.talebones.com.
Patrick was born in Pullman, Washington, but spent his formative years in Montana. He returned to Washington for college and has been a high school teacher now for 24 years. He holds a Masters in Education. He is a graduate of Clarion West way back in 1986. Although he had early story sales to places like Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Figment, and others, he started editing and publishing after working for a few years as a columnist for the small press zine Figment, run by his friends and mentors Barb & J.C. Hendee. He began Talebones in 1995. Fairwood Press started in 2000. He also runs a writers retreat at Lake Quinault, Washington. Information is at http://www.rainforestwritersvillage.com.