Patrick Milian is a queer, Cuban American writer and teacher based in Seattle, Washington.
Milian holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington, where he was also a Joff Hanauer Fellow at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. He’s tenured faculty in English at Green River College.
He is the author of The Unquiet Country, from Entre Ríos Books, and the chapbook Pornographies, from Greying Ghost. His poetry has appeared in periodicals like Poetry Magazine, Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, and Denver Quarterly. His prose has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Solstice, Spectrum, Modernism / modernity, and elsewhere. His musical collaborations with the composer Emerson Eads are published by Northstar Music.
He has been the recipient of the David A. Robertson Dissertation Fellowship, the Richard J. Dunn Teaching Award, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Lambda Literary Award.