Patrick Clement James studied classical music at the Manhattan School of Music and received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Houston. His work has appeared in Flock, American Chordata, The Cincinnati Review, Barrow Street, and The Mid-American Review; he is also a contributing opera critic for Parterre Box. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where he serves as a Writing Fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He lives in New York City.