Patrick Fealey was born in New York City in 1967 and grew up in southern Rhode Island, where he became an award-winning reporter for The Standard Times, The Narragansett Times, and a correspondent for The Boston Globe. After interviewing thousands of people, from the man in the street, to celebrities, to Presidential candidates, flying with the Navy Seals and writing an acclaimed piece on Luciano Pavarotti, he quit journalism at the age of 29. While living in rooming houses, a welfare hotel, on friends' couches, and in a church, struggling with manic-depression and poverty, he produced 13 books, of which Mostly Madly is the first to be published. For two decades, his fiction and poetry have been published by leading avant garde journals, including The Wormwood Review, Chiron Review, Ginosko, and Slipstream. His work has been included in two anthologies and an excerpt of his second novel, threading, will be published in Letters to Los Angeles by Pale House Books in the summer of 2012. Also an accomplished musician, he performed twice at the Newport Jazz Festival, opening for Miles Davis. He lives in northern California.