Mountain
Heritage Literary Festival Staff
Patrick Wensink, Director (He/Him)
Patrick Wensink is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Lincoln Memorial University and Director of the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. He is the bestselling author of several books, including Fake Fruit Factory (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2015), which was named one of the best novels of the year by NPR. His nonfiction appears in the New York Times, Esquire, Oxford American and many others. He lives in Cumberland Gap, TN with his son.