Patrick Anderson Jr. was born in Miami to Jamaican immigrants who relocated to the city in the late seventies, a few years before he was born. Raised in Perrine, Patrick received his B.A. in English from Florida State University and his M.F.A. in Creative writing from University of Central Florida. He is currently a Creative Writing Professor at Miami Dade College where he has taught for over a decade. Patrick’s short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines and anthologies. In his spare time, Patrick produces music under the stage name Autonomous Entity.