Patrick Riley has spent years writing nonfiction and marketing materials for high technology companies. His work has been published widely in trade magazines, internal company materials, and on the Internet. He has sold short fiction to FUTURES and Virginia Adversaria, both literary periodicals, twice to CityTalk, a local Chicago newspaper with circulation of 180,000 and three times to Liguorian, a Catholic Magazine with circulation of 350,000. In March of 2002, his latest project became a finalist in the FUTURES magazine contest for in-progress mystery novels.
His work was included in Midnight Mind Number Five.