Patrick Hicks

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

Life

He was raised in Stillwater, Minnesota. Much of his fiction takes place in Minnesota, but his poetry often discusses his experiences in Northern Ireland, Germany, and Spain. Hicks is a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. He holds degrees from College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, DePaul University, Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland), and the University of Sussex (England).

Patrick Hicks is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Finding the Gossamer and This London—-he is also the editor of A Harvest of Words, which was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 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, and the Gival Press Novel Award. His work with PBS’s “Over South Dakota” was nominated for an Emmy. He has won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, been a notable mention in Best American Stories, and he is the recipient of a number of grants, including individual artist awards from the Bush Foundation and the South Dakota Arts Council. In 2014, his third poetry collection, Adoptable, will be published by Salmon Poetry and, also in that same year, his first novel, The Commandant of Lubizec, will be published by Steerforth/Random House. In early 2015, his short story collection, The Collector of Names, will be published by Schaffner Press.

A former Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana College as well as a faculty member at the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College. His work has appeared in scores of international publications including, Ploughshares,^[1] Prairie Schooner, Commonweal, Glimmer Train, New Ohio Review, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, and Nimrod.

He currently lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Works

Poetry

• Finding the Gossamer (Salmon Poetry, 2008).
• This London (Salmon Poetry, 2010).
• A Harvest of Words, Editor (Center for Western Studies Press, 2010).
• Adoptable (Salmon Poetry, 2014).

Fiction

• The Commandant of Lubizec (Steerforth/Random House, 2014).
• The Collector of Names (Schaffner Press, 2015).

Chapbooks

• Draglines (2006)
• The Kiss That Saved My Life (2007)
• Traveling Through History (2005)

Non-fiction

• Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past – a critical retrospective of the work of Irish-Canadian novelist Brian Moore

References