Patrick Clement James is a poet, essayist, critic, and teacher. He studied music at the Manhattan School of Music and writing at the University of Houston. His work has appeared in Grist: the Journal for Writers, The Cincinnati Review, The Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, and Sequestrum. He is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department. He is currently working on a dissertation focusing on HIV/AIDS writing, Queer Literacy, and the LGBTQ archive. He teaches at Brooklyn College and serves as a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at John Jay College for Criminal Justice, CUNY.