Patrick Blennerhassett

Patrick Blennerhassett is a Canadian journalist and author who currently lives in Las Vegas.

Early life and education
Blennerhassett was born in Vancouver, and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia. He is a Thompson Rivers University graduate, who also attended Langara College and Simon Fraser University. His work has been published in such outlets as The Guardian and The Globe & Mail.

Blennerhassett has published four novels. He is also a freelance journalist and regularly contributes articles to Business in Vancouver.

In 2007 Blennerhassett was the recipient of a Jack Webster Foundation Fellowship Award.

In 2016 Blennerhassett published a non-fiction book about Olympic field hockey player Balbir Singh Sr.

Blennerhassett previously worked for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. In 2018 he wrote a feature article for The Guardian about a rash of deaths of men in his hometown of Kamloops. He is currently a business and economics journalist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Blennerhassett is married to former UFC fighter Ramona Pascual.

Books

 * Monument
 * Random Acts of Vandalism
 * A Forgotten Legend: Balbir Singh Sr., Triple Olympic Gold & Modi's New India
 * The Fatalists