History of Heartache

Patrick Strickland is a journalist from Texas. He's the author of three nonfiction books on the far right and migration: You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022), and Alerta! Alerta! Snapshots of Europe's Antifascist Struggle (2018). His reporting has appeared at The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Time, Al Jezeera, and elsewhere. His fiction has appeared in Epiphany, Pithead Chapel, and the Porter House Review, among others. He was the winner of the de Groot Foundation's 2024 COURAGE TO WRITE award. He is currently the managing editor of Inkstick Media, based in Athens, Greece.