Patrick Wensink is the author of five books for grownups, including the bestseller, Broken Piano for President. NPR named his most recent novel, Fake Fruit Factory, one of the best books of 2015.
His journalism appears in the New York Times, Esquire, Salon, Men’s Health, Oxford American and others.
In 2017, HarperCollins published his first children’s book, Go! Go! Gorillas!. The sequel, Gorillas Go Bananas hit shelves in 2018.
He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University.
He is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.
What is your Ohio history? I worked with a Michael Wensink from Deshler, Oh.
I lived in Deshler from 1979-1998. The Wensinks are all related in one way or another!