Patrick Willwerth teaches in the professional writing department at Champlain College, and has taught at the New England Young Writers' Conference and the Champlain Young Writers' Conference. He is a founding editor of Zig Zag Lit Mag, an arts and literature magazine serving Addison County, Vermont. He is also a fiction editorial assistant for Qu. Patrick lives with his wife and daughters in Vermont, where he writes, hikes, and teaches high school special education.