O'Leary's literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.^[1] He wrote the poem "Nobody Knows It But Me" which was used in the popular 2002 advertising campaign for the Chevrolet Tahoe and read in the commercial by James Garner.

• Door Number Three (1995)
• The Gift (1998) – nominated for the World Fantasy Award
• Other Voices, Other Doors (collection) (2000)
• The Impossible Bird (2002)
• "The Cane" (2007) Published in Postscripts 12
• The Black Heart (2009)
• "51" (2022)

• O'Leary's Tumblr page
• "Nobody Knows It But Me" at Everything2
• Excerpts from interview in Locus (September 1999)
• Patrick O'Leary at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• O'Leary's substack page