Patrick Hinds began writing at the age of five when his first book, “The Day Everything Came Alive in the Classroom”, having become quite the little sensation at Sippican Elementary School, was published by hand by his first grade teacher, Mrs. Tamlin.

He went on to study theater at Emerson College where, because he wasn’t any good, he gave up the dream of becoming a Broadway star, and began an illustrious career as a coffee schlepping intern at many, he’s told, prestigious, radio stations and network affiliates.

Upon his graduation in 2000—with a degree so general he can hardly remember what it was—He moved to New York City to work as a News Associate for CNBC. More of an optimist than a capitalist, the CNBC gig didn’t last long, and he moved on to bigger and better things—namely bartending.

He began his freelance writing career in the spring of 2002 with an article for Frontiers Magazine and has since written for Girlfriends Magazine, and Gay City News.

After meeting Romaine Patterson at a dirty little dive bar in New York City’s lower east side and, for over a month, cyber-harassing her into agreement that her life story had to be told in book form, he began work on his first book, The Whole World Was Watching.

He lives in New York City and still proudly tends bar at a steak house in mid-town.