Patrick Hicks

Patrick Hicks is the author of The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard, which was published by Steerforth/Random House to critical and popular acclaim, and was one of only 20 books chosen for National Reading Group Month. He is also the author of eight poetry collections, including Library of the Mind, Adoptable, This London, and Finding the Gossamer-—his short story collection, The Collector of Names, was published by Schaffner Press. His work has appeared in some of the most vital literary journals in America, including Ploughshares,Glimmer Train, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica, Salon, Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, NPR, and The PBS NewsHour, among many others. He has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, he was recently a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Dzanc Short Story Collection Competition, the Gival Press Novel Award, and the Steinberg Essay Prize from Fourth Genre. He has twice been nominated for an Emmy. A winner of the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, he is also the recipient of a number of grants, including individual artist awards from the Bush Foundation, The Loft Literary Center, the South Dakota Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the host and curator of the popular radio show, Poetry from Studio 47, which airs on affiliate NPR stations.

Patrick Hicks (born 1970 Charlotte, North Carolina ) is an Irish-American writer, poet, and Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University