Patrick Chapman Author

Patrick Chapman is an Irish writer, whose books include a novel, So Long, Napoleon Solo, (BlazeVOX, 2017), eight poetry collections, and three volumes of short fiction. He has written an award-winning short film, Burning the Bed and many episodes of animated television. His work also includes audio plays for Doctor Who and Dan Dare and scripts for docudrama The Space Race (B7/Audible, 2019). He produced B7’s dramatisation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles for BBC Radio 4. With Dimitra Xidous he edits a poetry magazine, The Pickled Body. Chapman contracted the Cronenberg virus in the 1980s, when he first saw The Fly. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.