Patrick Joseph Caoile is a Filipino American writer from northern New Jersey. He has a BA in English from Saint Peter's University, MA in English from Seton Hall University, and PhD in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His work is featured or forthcoming in storySouth, Porter House Review, the anthology Growing Up Filipino 3, and elsewhere. His bylines also appear in Collider and Little Old Lady Comedy. Currently, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Hamilton College.
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Patrick's fiction manuscript Tales from Manila Ave.: Stories was named a semi-finalist in the Autumn House Press 2023 Contest.
Patrick joins the Literature and Creative Writing Department at Hamilton College as a Visiting Assistant Professor this fall.
Patrick received the 2023 Bernice and Robert Webb Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Advanced Level from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Patrick was recently a fellow in the inaugural 2022 RWW Writers’ Retreat for Storytellers of Color. As part of the fiction cohort, he was mentored by Deesha Philyaw, author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning fiction collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.