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 Joff Hanauer Fellow at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. He teaches writing and literature at Green River College.
He is the author of The Unquiet Country, from Entre Ríos Books, and the chapbook Pornographies, from Greying Ghost. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Gulf Coast, Mid-American Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. His musical collaborations have been performed by Northwest Art Song and Line Upon Line Percussion.
He has been the recipient of the David A. Robertson Dissertation Fellowship, the Richard J. Dunn Teaching Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination.