Patrick Ryan is the author of Send Me, and his fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Tin House, One Story, Catapult, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. The former associate editor of Granta, Patrick is a contributing editor at One Story and is the editor of One Teen Story. He teaches writing at various venues, including One Story, Inc. and The Writers’ Institute at the City University of New York. His collection The Dream Life of Astronauts is out now.