Patrick O’Neil is a former roadie and road manager for the seminal punk bands Dead Kennedys, Flipper, T.S.O.L., and Subhumans. He is the author of the memoirs Anarchy At The Circle K, and Gun, Needle, Spoon; and the co-author of, in the company of an amazing list of writers, The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison from PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing Program. O’Neil holds an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles, and his work has been widely published in publications such as: Juxtapoz, The Fix, Decibel, Salon, and Razorcake.
