“The characters who walk, drive, and fire dance their way through the town of Euphoria are achingly familiar, each striving, in their own way, to find connection and meaning amid a backdrop of poverty, grief, addiction, and uncertainty. What makes this book such a joy to read—other than the empathy, wisdom, and humor imbued throughout each story—is Patterson’s clear, abiding love for his characters and for the place they call home.” --Shannon Bowring, author of the Dalton Novels trilogy.

“You won’t be able to shake the stories in Euphoria —they light up the brain and wrangle the heart. --Lewis Robinson, author of The Islanders.

Dave Patterson is a fiction writer, journalist, musician, and high school English teacher. He holds an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program. A winner of the Bread Loaf Freeman Fiction Award and a Maine Literary Award for Short Fiction, his stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in Salon, Slice Magazine, Hot Metal Bridge, Maine Magazine, The Masters Review, and in the anthologies Alive to This: Essays on Living Fully by Twenty Maine Writers and Positivity Bias:Maine Writers, Defiantly Happy Endings. He is the author of the novel, Soon the Light Will be Perfect, which the New York Public Library declared, “Devastating, beautiful, worth it.” He lives in Cape Elizabeth with his wife and two children.