Born and raised in Brooklyn NY, Patrick Dougher is a self-taught Artist, Musician, Poet, Educator & Spiritual Activist.

Daddy was in his 70s when I conducted my first interview with him. Born in 1919 (like Jackie Robinson), he was the fourth of six children.

I was twelve. My brother was thirteen, and our youngest brother, five. We were like postwar orphans—suddenly set loose, our days and nights ungoverned.

Perhaps it is the literal apocalypse unfolding daily across the border in Gaza that makes an undead narrator so compelling. Her body is coming apart, she is an unequivocal monster, but she has feelings.