Patrick Sean O’Neil

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Patrick Sean O’Neil is an American author of three memoirs: Anarchy at the Circle K: On the Road with Dead Kennedys, TSOL, Flipper, Subhumans, and… Heroin..; Gun, Needle, Spoon; and Hold-Up. He is the co-author of two books on writing; Writing Your Way To Recovery: How Stories Can Save Our Lives (with the author James Brown) and PEN America’s The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison.

Early life and education:[edit]

Patrick Sean O’Neil was born on October 14, 1956 in Madison, Wisconsin. His father was M.I.T. professor of linguistics Wayne O’Neil^[1]

O’Neil attended the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated in 1979 with a BFA in film. In 2006 he attended Antioch University Los Angeles’ Master of Fine Arts in Writing program and earned an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in nonfiction prose.

Career[edit]

In 1982 O’Neil was a touring roadie for the punk bands Dead Kennedys and T.S.O.L. and in 1984 he became the road manager^[2] for Dead Kennedys, Flipper, and Subhumans.^[3] He stopped working with Dead Kennedys after their last show with the lineup of Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride, and D.H. Peligro, at U.C. Davis in 1986.

In 1986 O’Neil worked as an artist for the independent record label Alternative Tentacles. O’Neil collaborated with the artist Winston Smith^[4] on the album cover for Bedtime For Democracy, and was present when the police raided^[5] the offices of Alternative Tentacles in search of the Frankenchrist/H.R. Giger "Work 219: Landscape XX" (also known as Penis Landscape) poster^[6] in response to a “distributing harmful matter to minors” charge against Alternative Tentacles from the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office.

O’Neil has publicly acknowledged that throughout his career in the music industry he was addict to heroin. In 1997 O’Neil was arrested by the San Francisco Police on multiple counts of armed robbery.^[7][8] Awaiting trial in San Francisco County jail O’Neil attended a creative writing class^[9] and began writing. 1998 O'Neil was convicted of two counts of robbery and sentenced to the California Department of Corrections.

2001 O'Neil was released from prison and began working in the recovery field as a drug and alcohol counselor. In 2006 he attended Antioch University Los Angeles and earned an MFA in Creative Writing.

2016 California Jerry Brown|Governor Jerry Brown granted O’Neil a Governor's Pardon for his felony convictions.^[10]

O’Neil is currently Adjunct Faculty for Antioch University's Continuing Education program.

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