Patrick Joseph Caoile is a Filipino American writer from northern New Jersey. His work is featured in storySouth, Porter House Review, the anthology Growing Up Filipino 3, and elsewhere. He was an inaugural fiction fellow of the 2022 Roots.Wounds.Words Writers' Retreat for Storytellers of Color. He holds a B.A. in English from Saint Peter's University, M.A. in English from Seton Hall University, and Ph.D. in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Hamilton College. His website is writingsbypatrick.com and he is on Twitter @caoilepa.