Patrick Martin Lane is a writer from Boston, Massachusetts and a veteran of the U.S. Navy submarine service. A graduate of Boston College, he is completing his M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins University and will begin the M.F.A. program at Fairfield University in fall 2026. His forthcoming novel-in-stories, The Jumping-off Place, follows a young Bostonian navigating early sobriety in the years after the financial crisis. His fiction draws upon working-class Irish-American life, trauma, addiction, and recovery. He lives in Rheine, Germany.