Patrick Hicks

Patrick Hicks is the author of over ten books, including The Collector of Names, This London, Adoptable, and In the Shadow of Dora. He also wrote the critically and popularly acclaimed novel, The Commandant of Lubizec. His work has appeared on NPR, The PBS Newshour, American Life in Poetry, and his first novel held company among only 20 books selected for National Reading Group Month. Hicks has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize, won the Glimmer Train Fiction Award, and was recently a finalist for the High Plains Book Award, the Steinberg Essay Prize, the Screencraft Cinematic Book Award, and an Emmy. Aside from being a former Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he has won a number of grants, including ones from the Bush Artist Foundation, The Loft Literary Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. His latest novel is Across the Lake.